Kourken Michaelian - New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field. This bookthe first of its kindcharts emerging directions of research in the field. The books seventeen newly commissioned chapters develop novel theories of remembering and forgetting, analyze the phenomenology and content of memory, debate issues in the ethics and epistemology of remembering, and explore the relationship between memory and affectivity. Written by leading researchers in the philosophy of memory, the chapters collectively present an exciting vision of the future of this dynamic area of research.

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, Oxford University Press), 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 a professor at the Grenoble Alpes University. He is the author of Quest-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.

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New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

Edited by Kourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, and Denis Perrin

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Edited by Kourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, and Denis Perrin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Michaelian, Kourken, editor.

Title: New directions in the philosophy of memory / edited by Kourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, and Denis Perrin.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 106 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017061298 | ISBN 9781138065604 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Memory (Philosophy)

Classification: LCC BD181.7 .N49 2018 | DDC 128/.3dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017061298

ISBN: 978-1-138-06560-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-15959-1 (ebk)

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