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The mirror as a site for learning and memory. Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University) is at The Memory Palace today, adding layers of nuance to how we think about what's reflected when we look in the mirror.

A wonderfully rich way to wrap up our 2025 posts. See you in 2026!
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When we look at ourselves in the mirror, what do we think of?  Today at The Memory Palace, Antonella Tramacere examines what is entailed by mirror gazing and what kind of memory affects one's mirror perception.
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Mirrors and memory: The stories embodied in your mirror image
Antonella Tramacere (Roma Tre University)
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December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Kathy Puddifoot (Durham) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing Mnemonic Injustice and the ways that the structure and use of our memory systems can wrong others around us. A provocative read; highly recommend!
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Can our memories ever be unfair or unjust? Today at The Memory Palace, Kathy Puddfoot explores the concept of "mnemonic injustice" and how our memories can serve a role in treating people with justice.
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Wronged by Memory
Katherine Puddifoot (Durham University)
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December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Juan Diego Bogotá (Jyväskylä) is at The Palace today, asking how groups share knowledge of their collective past and whether it warrants the title "collective memory." Juan has translated his thought-provoking post, so it's available simultaneously on the Palacio. Enjoy!
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When a person views an object used as a token of a historical event, what kind of memory is being activated? Today at The Memory Palace, Juan Diego Bogota touches on kinds of collective memory from events and material culture in English and Spanish!
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¿Qué es mnemónico acerca de la memoria colectiva?
Juan Diego Bogota (Universidad de Jyväskylä), Traducción del autor
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November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) is at The Memory Palace today, exploring a forgetting-first approach to asking questions about memory - and the mind more generally. A great exploration of how tasks shape our view of cognition. Take a look!

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When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives.
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Is forgetting discovered or created?
Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)
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November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund) is at The Memory Palace today, talking about the special case of memories for patterns of personal experience. These generic memories play a significant role in our lives, and so should play a larger role in our study of memory, too. Check it out!

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How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday?  Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events.
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How We Recall Recurring Events
Katja Crone (TU Dortmund)
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Memory Palace takes a big step forward with our translation project today. Check out our El Palacio de la Memoria section, featuring the efforts of the MemoriEs project - and come back regularly (or subscribe) to see more that we’ve got lined up to debut in the weeks ahead!
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Do you know that the Memory Palace publishes research not only in English but also in Spanish? Check out this post from Sarah Robins to know more about this initiative!
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Fiesta en al Palacio
Sarah Robins (Purdue University)
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October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Squinting at this image? You’re trying to identify objects in the blur, much as psychologists do when they approach research objects. Uljana Feest develops this view of psychology in her recent book, and she's talking about how it shapes implicit memory at The Memory Palace today. Enjoy!
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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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October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
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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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October 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Memory Palace wraps up our season with a post from Dylan Trigg (CEU), arguing for a return to the richer, historical notion of nostalgia. Take a look!
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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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June 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out!
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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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June 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
How much of our self-knowledge comes from memory? Ben Winokur (University of Macau) is at The Memory Palace today on the complicated process by which self-knowledge requires belief in one's own memory. Take a look!
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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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May 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
You get to keep one memory from your personal past. This is the provocative premise from which Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) begins his post at The Memory Palace today. A great read!
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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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April 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The philosophy of memory is growing in Japan! Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology) is at The Memory Palace today discussing recent and upcoming events, and the unique ways of this community is expanding the topics under consideration. Take a look!
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April 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When it comes to episodic memory, what distinguishes us from other animals? @cameronbuckner.bsky.social and Hunter Gentry are at The Memory Palace today, with a novel proposal (hint: it's not mental time travel!). Take a look!
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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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April 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Many of ethical dimensions of memory modification depend on the value framework from which you view the issue. Mona Jahangiri (Göttingen) is at The Memory Palace today, using Mullā Ṣadrā's work in Islamic Philosophy to explore issues surrounding memory, identity, and trauma.
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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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April 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The world's first heavyweight wrestling champion also wrote a book on memory, advocating for forgetting as much as possible, to allow ourselves to understand our intrinsic nature. Check out @dranseika.bsky.social post on George Hackenschmidt at The Memory Palace today!
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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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April 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The quest to naturalize memory offers a limited conception of our capacities to retain the past. What if we saw memory as a social kind instead? Alison Springle explores this question at The Memory Palace today. Take a look!

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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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March 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Revisiting memories, alone and with others, changes the horizon of associated experience. Daniel Gyollai (Copenhagen) is at The Memory Palace today, offering a thought-provoking Husserlian perspective on perspectives. Enjoy!
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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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March 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sometimes, remembering how you once felt feels as foreign as imagining how it would feel to be someone else. Megan Entwistle (WUSTL) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing this puzzle of perspectival forgetting. A great read!
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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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March 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
How does our sense of memory errors change if we adopt a teleosemantic view? Krystyna Bielecka (University of Bialystok) is at The Memory Palace today applying her recent book on misrepresentation to problems of memory error. Check it out!

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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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March 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you didn’t already have FOMO, for PhOMO, you will after reading @openshaw.bsky.social post The Memory Palace today. A great overview of the philosophy of memory organization and its recent initiatives and developments. Check it out!
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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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February 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Memory Palace doing what we can to share the love of philosophy of memory more widely. ❤️❤️❤️ ¡Besos!

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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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February 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Memory Palace is back! We’re starting with a fantastic post from Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez on a recent conference and the consequences of restricting philosophy of memory to English. A great read and a great project!

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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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February 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Still time to submit! Extended deadline is Feb 14–get your abstracts in for #SPAN2025 ! #neuroskyence #philscisky 🧠
February 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM