Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind

ISBN-13: 9780190674267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Christopher McCarroll

Opis

When recalling events that one personally experienced, sometimes one sees oneself in the remembered scene: from an external, detached 'observer perspective'. In such cases one remembers from-the-outside. Remembering from-the-outside is a common yet curious case of personal memory. This book disentangles the puzzles posed by such memories.

Recenzje

I really can't recommend this book enough. As an interdisciplinary researcher, and as someone who is interested in philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of memory and remembering, McCarroll's book has it all: it offers a thorough and illuminating review of the philosophy and the psychology of observer memories, it adumbrates the phenomenon of remembering from the outside with autobiographical and fictional examples, and it presents clearly articulated and thoroughly developed arguments in favor of the claim that observer memories can be genuine, veridical, and definitely worth thinking about.

O autorze

Christopher McCarroll is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory, University of Grenoble-Alpes.