This chapter surveys the debate between continuists and discontinuists about the
relationship between episodic memory and episodic imagination. Episodic memory can …

Philosophers of memory have approached the relationship between memory and
imagination from two very different perspectives. Advocates of the causal theory of memory …

On the simulation theory of memory, to remember is to imagine an event from the personal
past. McCarroll has recently argued that, because it implies not only that a genuine memory …

Radical enactivism, an increasingly influential approach to cognition in general, has recently
been applied to memory in particular, with Hutto and Peeters (in: Michaelian and Debus …

Recently, a view I refer to as “hypothetical continuism” has garnered some favour among
philosophers, based largely on empirical research showing substantial neurocognitive …

Is an appropriate causal connection to the past experience it represents a necessary
condition for a mental state to qualify as an episodic memory? For some years this issue has …

We argue that the causal theory of memory and the simulation theory of memory are not as
straightforwardly incompatible as they are usually taken to be. Following a brief review of the …

Recent theories of remembering and of reference (or singular thought) have de-emphasised
the role causation was thought to play in mid-to late-twentieth century theorising. According …

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Towards a virtue-theoretic account of confabulation Kourken Michaelian 6.1 Introduction There …

Relationalists about episodic memory must endorse a disjunctivist theory of memory-
experience according to which cases of genuine memory and cases of total confabulation …