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January 1, 2025
Robert Nozick's "Experience Machine" is a well-known thought experiment against hedonism, the view according to which pleasure is the only thing that has intrinsic value. Nozick argued that the reluctance to plug into a machine offering only pleasurable si ...
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January 1, 2025
In the philosophy of memory there is a tension between a preservationist and a constructivist view of memory reflected in the debate between causalism and simulationism. Causalism is not only committed to the claim that there must be an appropriate causal ...
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January 1, 2022
The idea that there are different kinds of memory is old. Aristotle, for instance, famously distinguished between memory and reminiscence, the former roughly corresponding to the retention of temporally based information from past events, and the latter to ...
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January 1, 2022
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January 1, 2021
In the last two decades, philosophy of neuroscience has predominantly focused on explanation. Indeed, it has been argued that mechanistic models are the standards of explanatory success in neuroscience over, among other things, topological models. However, ...
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February 15, 2018
Despite Dennett's vast scholarship, he seemed to only have directly addressed the topic of memory in a relatively unknown coauthored article published in a somewhat obscure volume. The current chapter attempts to reconstruct the ideas from this old article ...
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January 1, 2018
When people jointly reminisce, they often talk about past objects, which may or may no longer exist. How can two or more people jointly refer to an object that is long gone-or at least, that is not present in their surrounding? In this chapter, I offer a t ...
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January 1, 2017
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