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Soutenance
On April 19, 2022
dirigés par Monsieur Kourken MICHAELIAN
Composition du jury proposé
M. Kourken MICHAELIAN | Université Grenoble Alpes | Directeur de thèse |
Mme Rebecca COPENHAVER | Washington University in Saint Louis, USA | Rapporteure |
Mme Marya SCHECHTMAN | University of Illinois at Chicago | Rapporteure |
M. Florian COVA | Université de Genève | Examinateur |
M. Albert NEWEN | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Examinateur |
M. Denis PERRIN | Université Grenoble Alpes | Examinateur |
Abstract :
Experimental philosophy is a relatively new field that uses empirical methods to inform research on philosophical questions. Experimental philosophy turned out to be fruitful in a number of areas of philosophy, but there’s still relatively little experimental philosophy of personal identity and virtually no experimental philosophy of memory. Research presented in this thesis has the objective of contributing to both bringing the empirical methods of experimental philosophy to philosophy of memory and philosophy of personal identity and enriching experimental philosophy by encouraging to extend the interest of experimental philosophers to topics of memory and personal identity. In a nutshell, this thesis can be seen as a set of case studies on application (and critique) of methods of experimental philosophy in areas of philosophy of memory and personal identity. These case studies are unified both (a) thematically – addressing issues in philosophy of personal identity and/or memory, and (b) methodologically – using methods of experimental philosophy. The thesis consists of three parts. In Part I, Experimental Philosophy of Memory, tools of experimental philosophy are applied to three topics of philosophy of memory: factivity of remembering (Chapter 1), the concept of observer perspective memories (Chapter 2), and episodic memory as evidence of personal identity (Chapter 3). In Part II, Experimental Philosophy of Personal Identity, tools of experimental philosophy are applied to three topics of philosophy of personal identity: folk concepts of person and individual identity (Chapter 4), the use of proper names to study personal identity judgments (Chapter 5), and conceptual relations between concepts of death and personal identity (Chapter 6). Part III, Developing New Tools, presents two attempts at developing tools that, while currently applied in different domains – philosophy of imagination and metaphysics of persistence – could potentially be later applied in experimental philosophy of memory (Chapters 7) and personal identity (Chapter 8). Chapter 7 discusses self-identification in observer perspective episodic simulation while Chapter 8 discusses ways to study intrapersonal ontological pluralism.
Résumé :
Date
16h
Localisation
Bâtiment ARSH,
1281 Avenue Centrale
38400 Saint Martin d'Hères
Salle : B1
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