Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
Michaelian, Kourken
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-02-06
- 售價: $1,710
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,625
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 312
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262551152
- ISBN-13: 9780262551151
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商品描述
Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge. Current philosophical approaches to memory rest on assumptions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory and data coming from psychology. Michaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a radically new philosophical understanding of memory. His novel, integrated account of episodic memory, memory knowledge, and their evolution makes a significant step in that direction. Michaelian situates episodic memory as a form of mental time travel and outlines a naturalistic framework for understanding it. Drawing on research in constructive memory, he develops an innovative simulation theory of memory; finding no intrinsic difference between remembering and imagining, he argues that to remember is to imagine the past. He investigates the reliability of simulational memory, focusing on the adaptivity of the constructive processes involved in remembering and the role of metacognitive monitoring; and he outlines an account of the evolution of episodic memory, distinguishing it from the forms of episodic-like memory demonstrated in animals. Memory research has become increasingly interdisciplinary. Michaelian's account, built systematically on the findings of empirical research, not only draws out the implications of these findings for philosophical theories of remembering but also offers psychologists a framework for making sense of provocative experimental results on mental time travel.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
在這本書中,Kourken Michaelian基於心理學記憶研究,發展出一種創新的哲學觀點,關於記憶和記憶知識的本質。目前的哲學記憶方法基於與心理學理論和數據相矛盾的假設。Michaelian認為放棄這些假設將帶來對記憶的全新哲學理解。他對情節記憶、記憶知識及其演化的綜合性觀點是朝著這個方向邁出的重要一步。
Michaelian將情節記憶定位為一種心智時間旅行形式,並概述了一個自然主義框架來理解它。他基於建構性記憶研究,發展了一種創新的模擬理論,認為記憶和想像之間沒有本質上的區別,他主張記憶就是想像過去。他研究了模擬記憶的可靠性,關注記憶中建構過程的適應性和元認知監控的作用;並概述了情節記憶的演化,將其區分為動物展示的情節式記憶形式。
記憶研究越來越跨學科。Michaelian的觀點系統地建立在實證研究的發現上,不僅揭示了這些發現對於哲學記憶理論的意義,還為心理學家提供了一個理解心智時間旅行的引人實驗結果的框架。
作者簡介
Kourken Michaelian is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Kourken Michaelian是紐西蘭奧塔哥大學哲學系的講師。