
When Recalling Events That One Personally Experienced, One Often Visualises The Remembered Scene As One Originally Saw It: From An Internal Visual Perspective. Sometimes, However, One Sees Oneself In The Remembered Scene: From An External 'observer Perspective'. In Such Cases One Remembers From-the-outside. This Book Is About Such Memories. Remembering From-the-outside Is A Common Yet Curious Case Of Personal Memory: One Views Oneself From A Perspective One Seemingly Could Not Have Had At The Time Of The Original Event. How Can Past Events Be Recalled From A Detached Perspective? How Is It That The Self Is Observed? And How Can We Account For The Self-presence Of Such Memories? Indeed, Can There Be Genuine Memories Recalled From-the-outside? If Memory Preserves Past Perceptual Content Then How Can One See Oneself From-the-outside In Memory? This Book Disentangles The Puzzles Posed By Remembering From-the-outside. The Book Develops A Dual-faceted Approach For Thinking About Memory, Which Acknowledges Constructive And Reconstructive Processes At Encoding And At Retrieval, And It Uses This Approach To Defend The Possibility Of Genuine Memories Being Recalled From-the-outside. In So Doing It Also Elucidates The Nature Of Such Memories And Sheds Light On The Nature Of Personal Memory. The Book Argues That Field And Observer Perspectives Are Different Ways Of Thinking About A Particular Past Event. Further, By Exploring The Ways We Have Of Getting Outside Of Ourselves In Memory And Other Cognitive Domains, The Book Sheds Light On The Nature Of Our Perspectival Minds.
This book investigates the philosophical and cognitive mechanisms that allow individuals to recall personal events from an external, observer-based perspective rather than an internal, first-person viewpoint. Christopher McCarroll, a philosopher specializing in memory and the mind, utilizes a dual-faceted framework that examines both constructive and reconstructive processes occurring at the stages of encoding and retrieval. By analyzing the nature of self-presence in memory, the author argues that these observer-perspective recollections are indeed genuine memories rather than mere fabrications or imaginative constructs.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts in philosophy of mind and cognitive science recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the study of episodic memory and self-representation. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is tailored for scholars and students interested in the intersection of epistemology and cognitive psychology.
Page Count:
288
Publication Date:
2018-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
019067427X
ISBN-13:
9780190674274
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