Thomas Kuhn's famous model of the components and dynamics of scientific revolutions is
still dominant to this day across science, philosophy, and history. The guiding philosophical …

The search for the'furniture of the mind'has acquired added impetus with the rise of new
technologies to study the brain and identify its main structures and processes. Philosophers …

The study of the neural basis of memory has advanced over the past decade. A key
contributor to this memory “renaissance” has been new tools. On its face, this matches what …

This Element surveys research on three central and interrelated issues about the nature of
memory and remembering. The first is about the nature of memory as a cognitive faculty …

Optogenetics makes possible the control of neural activity with light. In this article, I explore
how the development of this experimental tool has brought about methodological and …

The discovery of the engram, the physical substrate of memory, is a central challenge for the
sciences of memory. Following the application of optogenetics to the neurobiological study …

What fixes the referents of episodic memories? While developed theories are lacking, it is
generally assumed that the causal production of a memory, via memory traces, determines …

Optogenetic techniques are described as “revolutionary” for the unprecedented causal
control they allow neuroscientists to exert over neural activity in awake-behaving animals. In …

Research tools dominate wetlab neurobiology. Yet the role and significance of research
tools in wetlab neurobiology remain mostly unaddressed by philosophers of neuroscience …

For nearly two decades, ethicists have expressed concerns that the further development and
use of memory modification technologies (MMTs)—techniques allowing to intentionally and …