CALL FOR
PAPERS
Special
issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Guest
editor: Denis Perrin
Deadline
for submissions: September 30, 2013
The Theme
Episodic
memory is a fundamental form of human memory, the hallmark of which is the
reliving of past experiences as a result of mental time travel towards one’s
own past. As such, it plays a basic role in personal identity, time
consciousness, action, and the grounding of knowledge. In the field of
psychology, current research programs have revived classical accounts of that
cognitive ability, such as attributionalism or constructivism, relying on
well-established defining features, such as mental time travel. They have also
brought out new features of episodic memory that make it necessary to go beyond
traditional accounts. Suffice it to mention the dependence of episodic memory
on the segmentation of the flux of consciousness in events, or the role of
episodic memory in episodic future thinking. Those advances foster current
philosophical works on remembering, by providing new empirical data and
theoretical frameworks that are likely to challenge existing conceptions. But
they also call for a philosophical assessment, given that psychology itself
draws on distinctively philosophical frameworks to account for the data (e.g.
inferentialism or reflexivism). This special issue of the Review of Philosophy
and Psychology, devoted to episodic memory, encourages contributions seeking to
show how psychological studies of episodicity (be they cognitive,
developmental, clinical or neurological) renew the philosophical approach to
remembering, or putting forward new conceptual analyses aimed at criticizing or
further developing the existing accounts of episodic memory in psychology.
Key
questions
• The
distinctive subjective experience proper to episodic memory, that is:
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how and why episodic memories are about the remembering subject;
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the subjective time of episodic navigation;
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the role played by semantic and procedural memories in the
subjective experience of episodic memory.
• The
epistemology of episodic memory:
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the information contents provided by episodic memory, and how
they differ from the contents of perception, imagination or semantic memories;
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the relation of episodic memory to truth and falsehood.
• The
functional roles of episodic memory with respect to:
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personal and social identity;
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knowledge and beliefs;
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action and reality monitoring;
-
phylogenetic evolution and episodic future thought.
Guest
authors
Dorothea
Debus (University of York)
Jordi
Fernandez (University of Adelaide)
Christoph
Hoerl (University of Warwick)
James
Russell (University of Cambridge)
Important
Dates
September
30, 2013 submission deadline
April 31,
2013 target publication date
How to
submit
Prospective
authors should register at: www.editorialmanager.com/ropp
to obtain a login and select Episodic memory as the article type.
Manuscripts should be approximately 10,000 words and conform to the
author guidelines available on the journal's website.
About the
journal
The Review
of Philosophy and Psychology (ISSN: 1878-5158; eISSN: 1878-5166) is a
peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly by Springer, which focuses on
philosophical and foundational issues in cognitive science. The journal’s aim
is to provide a forum for discussion on topics of mutual interest to
philosophers and psychologists and to foster interdisciplinary research at the
crossroads of philosophy and the sciences of the mind, including the neural,
behavioural and social sciences. The journal publishes theoretical works
grounded in empirical research as well as empirical articles on issues of
philosophical relevance. It includes thematic issues featuring invited
contributions from leading authors together with articles answering a call for
papers.
Contact
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