New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

Kourken Michaelian is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago. He is the author of Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past (MIT 2016) and coeditor of Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel (2016), and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (2017).Dorothea Debus teaches philosophy at the University of York. She has written on philosophical questions relating to the phenomena of memory, the imagination, attention, and emotions; her current research project ("Shaping Our Mental Lives") investigates our active involvement with our own mental lives.Denis Perrin is the author of Qu’est-ce que se souvenir? (2012), the editor of a special issue "Episodic memory" of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2014), and the author of several papers on episodic memory and mental time travel.

• The philosophy of memory today and tomorrow: Editors' introductionKourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, and Denis PerrinPart I: Challenges and alternatives to the causal theory of memory1 Beyond the causal theory? Fifty years after Martin and DeutscherKourken Michaelian and Sarah K. Robins2 A case for procedural causality in episodic recollection Denis Perrin3 The functional character of memory Jordi FernándezPart II: Activity and passivity in remembering4 Remembering as a mental actionSantiago Arango-Muñoz and Juan Pablo Bermúdez5 The roots of remembering: Radically enactive recollectingDaniel D. Hutto and Anco Peeters6 Handle with care: Activity, passivity, and the epistemological role of recollective memoriesDorothea DebusPart III: The affective dimension of memory7 Affective memory: A little help from our imaginationMargherita Arcangeli and Jérôme Dokic8 Painful memoriesPhilip GerransPart IV: Memory in groups9 Shared remembering and distributed affect: Varieties of psychological interdependenceJohn Sutton10 Memory, attention, and joint reminiscingFelipe De BrigardPart V: Memory failures: Concepts and ethical implications11 ForgettingMatthew Frise12 On the blameworthiness of forgettingSven Bernecker13 Consent without memoryCarl F. Craver and R. Shayna RosenbaumPart VI: The content and phenomenology of episodic and semantic memory14 The remembered: Understanding the content of episodic memoryMark Rowlands15 The past made present: Mental time travel in episodic recollectionMatthew Soteriou16 Remembering past experiences: Episodic memory, semantic memory, and the epistemic asymmetryChristoph Hoerl17 On seeming to rememberFabrice Teroni