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The Memory Palace
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A repository for ideas, questions, discoveries, and events in the philosophy of memory. thememorypalacephil.substack.com
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 5h
What does it mean that memory is epistemically blurry? Today at the Memory Palace, Uljana Feest discusses this important question and gives us a preview of her book "Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration".
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Memory as an Epistemically Blurry Object of Research
Uljana Feest (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 7d
How does explicit memory, like episodic memory, shape implicit attitudes? Today at the Memory Palace, Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) discusses this and other questions, with particular attention to implicit biases and their harmful consequences.
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How Memory Shapes Implicit Attitudes
Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 14d
After a summer break, the Memory Palace is back with an exciting post on good and bad forms of commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai (University of Stirling). Exciting news about the Palace's projects are coming soon!
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Commemoration and Controversy
Ten-Herng Lai (University of Stirling)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Jun 10
Today, we end the first cycle of posts for 2025 with Dylan Trigg's reflections on nostalgia and grief. We are coming back after a summer break with new exciting posts and initiatives at the Memory Palace. Stay tuned!
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Nostalgia and Grief
Dylan Trigg (Central European University)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Jun 3
Episodic remembering comes with a complex phenomenology. How can we account for it? Which methodology is best suited to study it? Today, Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum) shares some very interesting ideas about these questions.
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What does it mean to relive an experience through remembering?
Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · May 20
What's the role of memory in self-knowledge? Which type of memory is the most relevant one for getting to know ourselves better, e.g., our own beliefs? Today at the Memory Palace, Ben Winokur (University of Macau) explores these exciting questions.
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Memory and Self-Knowledge
Benjamin Winokur (University of Macau)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · May 6
If Large Language Models can remember without a trace, also humans can do so. Today at the Memory Palace, Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong) discusses this provocative and exciting idea.
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Remembering Without a Trace of a Trace: Of Mice, Humans, and LLMs
Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 29
If you could hold on to just a single memory, just one episode from your personal past, what would it be? Today at the Memory Palace, Chris McCarroll investigates this exciting question about personal memory. A highly recommended reading!
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A Single Memory
Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 22
A great post on the philosophy of memory in Japan from Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
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The Philosophy of Memory in Japan
Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 15
Would you like to learn more about memory in non-human animals? Please, check today's exciting post from Hunter Gentry (Kansas State University) and Cameron Buckner (University of Florida) if you want to do so.
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Where did I leave my episode, again?
Hunter Gentry (Kansas State University) and Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 8
If you want to know more on the ethics of memory dampening, you should really check this awesome post by Mona Jahangiri (University of Göttingen).
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Between Memory and Identity: Trauma and the Self in Islamic Philosophy
Mona Jahangiri (University of Göttingen)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 1
An exciting post on George Hackenschmidt's philosophy of memory (and more), authored by Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University).
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The Man Who Wrestled with Memory
Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Mar 25
What if memory were a social kind, like race, gender, and love? What does that would mean for the ways we can study it? Today, at the Memory Palace, Alison Springle (University of Miami) discusses these and other exciting questions about our memory systems.
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A Social Critical Metaphysics of Memory: A Manifesto
Alison Springle (University of Miami)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Mar 18
A fantastic post on looking back at our personal past from new perspectives, authored by Daniel Gyollai (University of Copenhagen).
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The determinable indeterminacy of our past
Daniel Gyollai (University of Copenhagen)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Mar 11
A very cool post on perspectival forgetting from Megan Entwistle (Washington University in St. Louis). A highly recommended reading.
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Perspectival Forgetting
Megan Entwistle (Washington University in St. Louis)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Mar 4
A very cool post from Krystyna Bielecka (Institute of Philosophy, University of Białystok), in which she gives fantastic overview of her teleosemantic account of episodic memory.
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The Error That Lies: How Teleosemantics Illuminates Memory and Confabulation
Krystyna Bielecka (Institute of Philosophy, University of Białystok)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Feb 25
Great post from on the past, present, and future of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, authored by James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
The Philosophy of Memory Organization: An update
James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Feb 18
A beautiful post from Em Walsh (University of Central Florida), discussing trauma, grief, and the politics of traumatic memory.
Mild spoiler alert: the post discusses Severance and it gives some sneak info about what happens in the TV show.
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"She's not dead, is she?" Risk-Taking, Agency, & the Politics of Traumatic Memory
Em Walsh (University of Central Florida)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Feb 14
Today we have Sarah Robins, introducing a new multilingual initiative at the Memory Palace. We are going to start to translate and have new posts in Spanish for now, but we are looking forward to publish content in many other languages. Volunteer translators are welcome!
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El Palacio de la Memoria
Sarah Robins (Purdue University)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Feb 11
The Memory Palace is back with an exciting post from Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez (University of Western Australia). The post is available in English and Spanish.
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MemoriEs: Philosophy of Memory in Spanish from the Global South
Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez (University of Western Australia)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Dec 17
Very exciting post on the past, present, and future of the Centre for Philosophy of Memory (University of Grenoble Alpes), from Kirk Michaelian and Denis Perrin.
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The Centre for Philosophy of Memory: The story so far
Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Dec 10
A very interesting post on how we learn to remember, from
César Schirmer dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria)!
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Memory: Nature or Nurture?
César Schirmer dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Dec 3
What do pictures and episodic memories have in common? In today's post, Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum) investigates this important question through the tools of picture semantics.
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Memories as Pictures
Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Nov 26
A very exciting post from Iva Apostolova (St. Paul University) on the the relationship between touch and memory!
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Memory and Touch
Iva Apostolova (St. Paul University)
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Nov 19
An exciting preview of the the Second Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop. Many thanks to Changsheng Lai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) for his post!
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The Second Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop
Changsheng Lai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
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