Memory - A Philosophical Study

Zusatztext offers a detailed and erudite philosophical study of propositional memory ... admirably and unashamedly ambitious. Informationen zum Autor Sven Bernecker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine. His main areas of research are epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and he has published widely in these areas. He is the author of Reading Epistemology (Blackwell, 2006), The Metaphysics of Memory (Springer, 2008), and is the editor of Knowledge (with Fred Dretske, Oxford University Press, 2000) and The Routledge Companion to Epistemology (with Duncan Pritchard, Routledge, forthcoming). Klappentext Sven Bernecker presents a new causal theory of memory, examining a number of metaphysical and epistemological issues crucial to the understanding of propositional or factual memory. This book provides sophisticated and comprehensive coverage of a much neglected area of philosophy, and will also appeal to cognitive scientists and psychologists. Zusammenfassung Sven Bernecker presents a new causal theory of memory, examining a number of metaphysical and epistemological issues crucial to the understanding of propositional or factual memory. This book provides sophisticated and comprehensive coverage of a much neglected area of philosophy, and will also appeal to cognitive scientists and psychologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Concept of Memory 2: Personal Identity and Memory 3: Remembering Without Knowing 4: n Defense of the Causal Theory of Memory 5: The Nature of Memory Causation 6: Pastist Externalism about Memory Content 7: In Defense of Pastist Externalism 8: The Authenticity of Memory 9: Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Sven Bernecker, Sven (University of California Irvine) Bernecker, Bernecker Sven
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199577569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957756-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge