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Hoerl, Christoph (2018) Episodic memory and theory of mind : a connection reconsidered. Mind & Language, 33 (2). pp. 148-160. doi:10.1111/mila.12170 ISSN 0268-1064.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12170
Abstract
In the literature on episodic memory, one claim that has been made by a number of psychologists (e.g., Perner & Ruffman, 1995; Suddendorf & Corballis, 1997; Wheeler, Stuss, & Tulving, 1997), and that is also at least implicit in some of the accounts given by philosophers (e.g., Dokic, 2001; Fernández, 2008; Owens, 1996), is that being able to recollect particular past events in the distinctive way afforded by episodic memory requires the possession of aspects of a theory of mind, such as a grasp of the relationship between one’s present recollective experience and one’s own past perceptual experience of the remembered event. In this paper, I re-examine what connection, if any, there is between episodic memory and theory of mind. I first criticize the dominant way in which this connection has been construed theoretically, which – perhaps influenced by other aspects of theory of mind research – has sought to link the possession of episodic memory primarily with a grasp of the idea of representation, or the idea of informational access. I then argue for a novel, alternative, way of connecting episodic memory and theory of mind, which focuses on the category of an experience, and on the role a grasp of that category might be seen to play in episodic recollection. In doing so, I also draw attention to a dimension of our understanding of the mental which remains as yet underexplored in the literature on theory of mind.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Episodic memory, Philosophy of mind, Psychology, Knowledge, Theory of | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mind & Language | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0268-1064 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 148-160 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/mila.12170 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 November 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 February 2019 | ||||||||
Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | AH/P00217X/1 | ||||||||
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