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The theoretical virtues of simulationism

Séminaire international

Le 16 décembre 2021

César SCHIRMER DOS SANTOS

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brésil

The Simulation Theory of Memory (STM) can be seen as a proposal for ameliorating the concept of remembering. This amelioration would be the case because, according to STM, remembering, very much as prospecting imaginatively the personal future, is a way of 'traveling' in subjective time -- a view grounded in empirical research on the operations of a shared neurocognitive mechanism for imagining and remembering episodically. In this talk, I want to investigate the theoretical virtues of STM. More specifically, I want to do two things. First, I want to compare the explanatory simplicity of STM vis-a-vis the Causal Theory of Memory (CTM). Finally, I want to approach two objections to the STM. First, the change-of-subject objection. Second, the 'instability' objection that motivates Trace Minimalism.
 
 

Date

Le 16 décembre 2021
Complément date
10h30 - 12h

Localisation

Complément lieu
Salle B1, bât. ARSH
1281 Av. Centrale, 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères
 

Publié le 24 novembre 2021

Mis à jour le 24 novembre 2021