The roundtable is held in person. The talks take place on the Stadcampus of University of Antwerp. Attendance is free and no registration is required.
At 10.45AM - "Episodic memory without autonoetic consciousness"
Speaker
Felipe De Brigard (Duke)
Abstract
Ever since Tulving’s influential 1985 article “Memory and Consciousness” it has become traditional to think of autonoetic consciousness as necessary for episodic memory. This paper questions this claim. Specifically, it argues that the construct of autonoetic consciousness lacks validity and that, even if it was valid, it would still not be necessary for episodic memory. The paper ends with a proposal to go back to a functional/computational characterization of episodic memory in which its characteristic phenomenology is a contingent feature of the retrieval process and, as a result, open to empirical scrutiny
Location
The talk takes place in room E.122 of the main campus, Lesiuszaal, Antwerp 2000.