Abstract

SANT’ANNA, André. Attitudes and the (dis)continuity between memory and imagination. Estud.filos [online]. 2021, n.64, pp.73-93.  Epub Sep 22, 2021. ISSN 0121-3628.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n64a04.

The current dispute between causalists and simulationists in philosophy of memory has led to opposing attempts to characterize the relationship between memory and imagination. In a recent overview of this debate, Perrin and Michaelian (2017) have suggested that the dispute over the (dis)continuity between memory and imagination boils down to the question of whether a causal connection to a past event is necessary for remembering. By developing an argument based on an analogy to perception, I argue that this dispute should instead be viewed as a dispute about the nature of the attitudes involved in remembering and imagining. The focus on attitudes, rather than on causal connections, suggests a new way of conceiving of the relationship between memory and imagination that has been overlooked in recent philosophy of memory.

Keywords : memory; imagination; causal theory; simulation theory; continuism; discontinuism.

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