Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination

This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research.

Autorentext

Anja Berninger is a Researcher in philosophy at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her research focuses on the philosophy of mind and social philosophy with a special emphasis on empathy, emotions, and memory.

Íngrid Vendrell Ferran is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg, Germany. Her research is in the areas of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, and aesthetics.

Inhalt

Introduction Anja Berninger and Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

Part 1: Memory and Imagination: Ontological Questions

1. Remembering and Imagining: The Attitudinal Continuity *Peter Langland-Hassan*

2. Memory and Imagination, Minds and Worlds Christopher Jude McCarroll

3. Imagining the Actual vs. Possible Future: An Argument for Discontinuism of Collective Mental Time Travel Alma K. Barner

4. If Remembering Is Imagining, Then What Is Forgetting? Kourken Michaelian

5. Relationism about Memory? Paul Noordhof

Part 2: Memory, Imagination, Justification, and Perspective

6. On the Putative Epistemic Generativity of Memory and Imagination Kengo Miyazono and Uku Tooming

7. Imagining in Remembering from the Outside Margherita Arcangeli

8. Constructing a Wider View on Memory: Beyond the Dichotomy of Field and Observer Perspectives Anco Peeters, Erica Cosentino, and Markus Werning

Part 3: Memory, Imagination, Skills, and Abilities

9. Memory, Imagination, and Skill Amy Kind

10. Remembering and Imagining as Agential Powers Robert Hopkins

11. The Method of Loci and the Role of Constructive Imagination in Remembering *Sarah Robins*

Part 4: Memory, Imagination, and Emotion

12. Imagine What It Feels Like *Íngrid Vendrell Ferran*

13. A Family-Resemblance Approach to Nostalgia *Anja Berninger*

14. Affective Selves, Streams of Consciousness, and Mental Time Travels Fabrice Teroni