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3. The experience of time in memory

Jordi Fernandez October 23, 2019 October 22, 2019 Consciousness / Jordi Fernandez: Memory - A Self-Referential Account / Memory

This week, I’m writing a series of posts on my new book Memory: A Self-Referential Account (Oxford University Press, 2019). The post today concerns the topic of chapter four, the phenomenology of memory and, in particular, two aspects of the temporal phenomenology of memory. Firstly, when we remember something, we …

2. The intentionality of memory

Jordi Fernandez October 22, 2019 October 22, 2019 Intentionality / Jordi Fernandez: Memory - A Self-Referential Account / Memory

This week, I’m writing a series of posts on my new book Memory: A Self-Referential Account (Oxford University Press, 2019). The post today concerns the content of memories; the topic of chapter three. I defend the view that memories are self-referential in that they represent a property of themselves. Specifically, …

1. The metaphysics of memory

Jordi Fernandez October 21, 2019 October 22, 2019 Jordi Fernandez: Memory - A Self-Referential Account / Memory / metaphysics of mind

This week I am writing a series of posts about my new book Memory: A Self-Referential Account (Oxford University Press, 2019). My first post, today, concerns the metaphysics of experiential, or episodic, memory. In chapter two, I address the question of what it takes for a subject’s mental state to …

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John Schwenkler October 21, 2019 November 2, 2019 books

We are pleased to have Jordi Fernández blogging this week on Memory: A Self-Referential Account, newly published by Oxford University Press. To view all of Jordi’s posts on a single page, please click here.

The Phenomenal Basis of Epistemic Justification

Declan Smithies September 13, 2019 September 4, 2019 Consciousness / Declan Smithies: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness / Epistemology

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Over the past three days, I’ve discussed the epistemic role of consciousness in perception, cognition, and introspection. In this final post, I want to explain how I integrate these claims about the …

A Simple Theory of Introspection

Declan Smithies September 12, 2019 September 4, 2019 Consciousness / Declan Smithies: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness / Self-consciousness

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Today, I’ll discuss the epistemic role of consciousness in introspection. What is introspection? Literally, ‘introspection’ means ‘looking within’. But the term is often used as a placeholder for the distinctively first-personal way …

Beliefs and Subdoxastic States

Declan Smithies September 11, 2019 September 4, 2019 Belief / Cognition / Consciousness / Declan Smithies: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Today, I’ll discuss the epistemic role of consciousness in cognition. Could there be a cognitive zombie – that is, an unconscious creature with the capacity for cognition? As I use the term, …