Time and Memory Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

by Hoerl, Christoph; McCormack, Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780198250364
• ISBN10: 0198250363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-19
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past are two of the most fundamental and least understood aspects of human cognition and consciousness. This book throws new light on central issues in the study of the mind by uniting, for the first time,psychological and philosophical approaches dealing with the connection between temporal representation and memory. Fifteen specially written essays by leading psychologists and philosophers investigate the way in which time is represented in memory, and the role memory plays in our ability to reasonabout time. They offer insights into current theories of memory processes and of the mechanisms and cognitive abilities underlying temporal judgements, and draw out fundamental issues concerning the phenomenology and epistemology of memory and our understanding of time. The chapters are arrangedinto four sections, each focused on one area of current research: I Keeping Track of Time, and Temporal Representation; II Memory, Awareness and the Past; III Memory and Experience; IV Knowledge and the Past: The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Time. A general introduction gives an overview of thetopics discussed and makes explicit central themes which unify the different philosophical and psychological approaches.

Author Biography

Richard A. Block is Professor of Psychology at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Jill Boucher is Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick Gordon D. A. Brown is Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick John Campbell is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford Nick Chater is Professor of Psychology at Warwick University David Cockburn is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Lampeter Martin A. Conway is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol Jerome Dokic is 'maitre de conferences' at the University of Rouen William J. Friedman is Professor of Psychology at Oberlin College, Ohio Christoph Hoerl is Institutional Research Fellow in the AHRB Project on Consciousness and Self Consciousness at the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Teresa McCormack is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick M. G. F. Martin is Lecturer in philosophy at University College London Andrew R. Mayes is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Liverpool A. W. Moore is Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford Christopher Peacocke is Professor of Philosophy at New York University J. H. Wearden is Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester Dan Zakay is Professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, Israel

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	xi
Perspectives on Time and Memory: An Introduction	1	(36)
Christoph Hoerl
Teresa McCormack
I. Keeping Track of Time, and Temporal Representation
Internal Clocks and the Representation of Time	37	(22)
J. H. Wearden
Retrospective and Prospective Timing: Memory, Attention, and Consciousness	59	(18)
Richard A. Block
Dan Zakay
The Chronological Organization of Memory: Common Psychological Foundations for Remembering and Timing	77	(34)
Gordon D. A. Brown
Nick Chater
`Lost in a Sea of Time': Time-Parsing and Autism	111	(28)
Jill Boucher
II. Memory, Awareness and the Past
Memory Processes Underlying Humans' Chronological Sense of the Past	139	(30)
William J. Friedman
Memory Demonstratives	169	(18)
John Campbell
Aware and Unaware Memory: Does Unaware Memory Underlie Aware Memory?	187	(26)
Andrew R. Mayes
Is Memory Purely Preservative?	213	(22)
Jerome Dokic
III. Memory and Experience
Phenomenological Records and the Self-Memory System	235	(22)
Martin A. Conway
Out of the Past: Episodic Recall as Retained Acquaintance	257	(28)
M. G. F. Martin
Attributing Episodic Memory to Animals and Children	285	(30)
Teresa McCormack
The Phenomenology of Episodic Recall	315	(24)
Christoph Hoerl
IV. Knowledge and the Past: The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Time
Understanding the Past Tense	339	(36)
Christopher Peacocke
Apperception and the Unreality of Tense	375	(18)
A. W. Moore
Memories, Traces and the Significance of the Past	393	(18)
David Cockburn
Author Index	411	(6)
Subject Index	417