Christopher Jude Mccarroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 461051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Jude Mccarroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Jude |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarroll |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARROLL C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7555-1355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Causally defective remembering
The standard argument for the causal theory of memory relies on intuitions about scenarios in which subjects accurately represent events from their pasts but do so in a “causally defective” manner. Examples include representations based on suggestion and representations based on relearned information. According to causalists, these scenarios, intuitively, are not cases of remembering. This paper applies the methods of experimental philosophy to d…
Chronic pain and unrecognized grief
What is it to grieve? What is the nature of grief? An intuitive and straightforward answer to these questions, one that will be familiar to all of us, is that grief is an emotional reaction to the death of a close loved one. Grief is intimately connected to bereavement. However, grief can arise in situations beyond the death of a significant other and is revealed to be a much more complex and heterogeneous experience. People can grieve over all s…
Forgiving unbound
What does it take to forgive? Forgiveness is often thought to involve an internal, intrapersonal process: it happens within the subject. Drawing on the idea that many of our mental states and processes can extend into the material environment, we argue that this is not always the case: forgiving is often a world-involving, extended process. This means that its mechanisms do not always stop at our brains, our bodies, other people, or the instituti…
Mourning a death foretold
Grief is a complex emotional experience or process, which is typically felt in response to the death of a loved one, most typically a family member, child, or partner. Yet the way in which grief manifests is much more complex than this. The things we grieve over are multiple and diverse. We may grieve for a former partner after the breakup of a relationship; parents sometimes report experiencing grief when their grown-up children leave the family…
Explanatory Contextualism about Episodic Memory
We argue that the causal theory of memory and the simulation theory of memory are not as straightforwardly incompatible as they are usually taken to be. Following a brief review of the theories, we describe alternative normative and descriptive perspectives on memory, arguing that the causal theory aligns better with the normative perspective and the simulation theory with the descriptive perspective. Taking explanatory contextualism about percep…
Putting the Past into Perspective. Remembering, Reappraising, and Forgiving
The process of forgiving seems to require that a person can remember a specific moment in their personal past in which they were harmed in some way. Forgiving, then, often requires episodic memory, which may be understood as memory of events or experiences in one’s personal past. What is it that grounds acts of forgiveness? One of the most prominent ideas is that, fundamentally, forgiveness involves a change in emotion; it requires that negative …
Cryptomnesia
Situated authenticity in episodic memory
A recalled memory is deemed authentic when it accurately represents how one experienced the original event. However, given the convincing research in cognitive science on the constructive nature of memory, this inevitably leads to the question of the ‘bounds of authenticity’. That is, how similar does a memory have to be to the original experience to still count as authentic? In this paper we propose a novel account of ‘Situated Authenticity’ whi…
The repair shop of memory
In the BBC show, The Repair Shop , members of the public bring their cherished but crumbling possessions into a workshop populated by expert craftspeople, who carry out restorations. These objects arrive as treasured possessions, which, despite their dilapidated state, still hold memories and meaning for their owners, albeit memories that may have faded as the object itself has aged. Something magical seems to take place after the objects are res…
Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination
Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory
International audience
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy
Immunity to error through misidentification in observer memories
Judgments based on episodic memory are often thought to be immune to errors of misidentification (IEM). Yet there is a certain category of episodic memories, viz. observer memories, that seems to threaten IEM. In the resulting debate, some say that observer memories are a threat to the IEM enjoyed by episodic memory (Michaelian, 2021); others say that they pose no such threat (Fernández, 2021; Lin, 2020). In this paper, we argue for a middle way.…
Rewarding one’s Future Self
Looking the past in the eye
Cryptomnesia
Situated authenticity in episodic memory
A recalled memory is deemed authentic when it accurately represents how one experienced the original event. However, given the convincing research in cognitive science on the constructive nature of memory, this inevitably leads to the question of the ‘bounds of authenticity’. That is, how similar does a memory have to be to the original experience to still count as authentic? In this paper we propose a novel account of ‘Situated Authenticity’ whi…
The repair shop of memory
In the BBC show, The Repair Shop , members of the public bring their cherished but crumbling possessions into a workshop populated by expert craftspeople, who carry out restorations. These objects arrive as treasured possessions, which, despite their dilapidated state, still hold memories and meaning for their owners, albeit memories that may have faded as the object itself has aged. Something magical seems to take place after the objects are res…
Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory
International audience
Immunity to error through misidentification in observer memories
Judgments based on episodic memory are often thought to be immune to errors of misidentification (IEM). Yet there is a certain category of episodic memories, viz. observer memories, that seems to threaten IEM. In the resulting debate, some say that observer memories are a threat to the IEM enjoyed by episodic memory (Michaelian, 2021); others say that they pose no such threat (Fernández, 2021; Lin, 2020). In this paper, we argue for a middle way.…
Looking the past in the eye
Rewarding one’s Future Self
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy
Immunity to error through misidentification in observer memories
Judgments based on episodic memory are often thought to be immune to errors of misidentification (IEM). Yet there is a certain category of episodic memories, viz. observer memories, that seems to threaten IEM. In the resulting debate, some say that observer memories are a threat to the IEM enjoyed by episodic memory (Michaelian, 2021); others say that they pose no such threat (Fernández, 2021; Lin, 2020). In this paper, we argue for a middle way.…
Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination
Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory
International audience
Putting the Past into Perspective. Remembering, Reappraising, and Forgiving
The process of forgiving seems to require that a person can remember a specific moment in their personal past in which they were harmed in some way. Forgiving, then, often requires episodic memory, which may be understood as memory of events or experiences in one’s personal past. What is it that grounds acts of forgiveness? One of the most prominent ideas is that, fundamentally, forgiveness involves a change in emotion; it requires that negative …
Cryptomnesia
Situated authenticity in episodic memory
A recalled memory is deemed authentic when it accurately represents how one experienced the original event. However, given the convincing research in cognitive science on the constructive nature of memory, this inevitably leads to the question of the ‘bounds of authenticity’. That is, how similar does a memory have to be to the original experience to still count as authentic? In this paper we propose a novel account of ‘Situated Authenticity’ whi…
The repair shop of memory
In the BBC show, The Repair Shop , members of the public bring their cherished but crumbling possessions into a workshop populated by expert craftspeople, who carry out restorations. These objects arrive as treasured possessions, which, despite their dilapidated state, still hold memories and meaning for their owners, albeit memories that may have faded as the object itself has aged. Something magical seems to take place after the objects are res…
Mourning a death foretold
Grief is a complex emotional experience or process, which is typically felt in response to the death of a loved one, most typically a family member, child, or partner. Yet the way in which grief manifests is much more complex than this. The things we grieve over are multiple and diverse. We may grieve for a former partner after the breakup of a relationship; parents sometimes report experiencing grief when their grown-up children leave the family…
Explanatory Contextualism about Episodic Memory
We argue that the causal theory of memory and the simulation theory of memory are not as straightforwardly incompatible as they are usually taken to be. Following a brief review of the theories, we describe alternative normative and descriptive perspectives on memory, arguing that the causal theory aligns better with the normative perspective and the simulation theory with the descriptive perspective. Taking explanatory contextualism about percep…
Forgiving unbound
What does it take to forgive? Forgiveness is often thought to involve an internal, intrapersonal process: it happens within the subject. Drawing on the idea that many of our mental states and processes can extend into the material environment, we argue that this is not always the case: forgiving is often a world-involving, extended process. This means that its mechanisms do not always stop at our brains, our bodies, other people, or the instituti…
Causally defective remembering
The standard argument for the causal theory of memory relies on intuitions about scenarios in which subjects accurately represent events from their pasts but do so in a “causally defective” manner. Examples include representations based on suggestion and representations based on relearned information. According to causalists, these scenarios, intuitively, are not cases of remembering. This paper applies the methods of experimental philosophy to d…
Chronic pain and unrecognized grief
What is it to grieve? What is the nature of grief? An intuitive and straightforward answer to these questions, one that will be familiar to all of us, is that grief is an emotional reaction to the death of a close loved one. Grief is intimately connected to bereavement. However, grief can arise in situations beyond the death of a significant other and is revealed to be a much more complex and heterogeneous experience. People can grieve over all s…
Psychology (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works)