Causation in Memory

Schedule:

21 July 2023

• 9:15-9:30. Welcome.
• 9:30-10:30. Title TBA. John Campbell (University of California, Berkeley).
• 10:30-11:00. Coffee break.
• 11:00-12:00. Memory shifts and reappraisals: Uncovering causation. Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto).
• 12:00-13:30. Lunch.
• 13:30-14:30. Causal memory traces? Insights from modeling and experiments. Sen Cheng (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
• 14:30-15:30. Varieties of memory, varieties of reconstruction, varieties of memory trace. Simon Brown (Johns Hopkins University).
• 15:30-16:00. Coffee Break.
• 16:00-17:00. Martin and Deutscher's causal theory: Insights and oversights. Sarah Robins (University of Kansas).
• 19:00. Dinner.

22 July 2023

• 9:30-10:30. The role of causation in framing mnemonic content. Jordi Fernandez (University of Adelaide).
• 10:30-11:00. Coffee break.
• 11:00-12:00. Causation in memory: What, how, and why?. Nikola Andonovski (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes)
• 12:00-13:30. Lunch.
• 13:30-14:30. The Reichenbach argument for causalism: Objections and replies. Markus Werning (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
• 14:30-15:30. The causal specificity of memory traces. Jonathan Najenson (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology).
• 15:30-16:00. Coffee break.
• 16:00-17:00. Episodic Simulation: Causal links between past and future. Donna Rose Addis (University of Toronto).

Organizers: Nikola Andonovski (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes), Kourken Michaelian (CPM, Université Grenoble Alpes).