Sven Bernecker

Memory

A Philosophical Study a Philosophical Study

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780199577569
• ISBN-10: 0199577560
• Artikelnr.: 29426161

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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