Transient Particulars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22109339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Bacharach (0000-0002-2288-7824, University of Antwerp, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 0 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4014 • E-ISSN: 2330-4014 |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Library (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3998/ergo.6164 |
| OpenAlex | W4400768630 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
We spend much of our adult lives thinking and reminiscing about particular events of the past, which, by their very nature, can never be repeated. What is involved in a capacity to think thoughts of this kind? In this paper, I propose that such thoughts are essentially connected with a capacity to communicate about past events, and specifically in the special way in which events of the past are valued and shared in our relationships with one another. I motivate this proposal by way of the claim that such thoughts are practically useless: there are no practical, forward-looking tasks that require information which is specific to particular past events. Thus I suggest that thoughts of this specific kind have a home only in the cognitive economy of a creature who finds past events to be of interest for their own sake, and that this interest in the past is a peculiar feature of human social life
Programming language · Advanced Differential Geometry Research · Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications · Computer Science · Philosophy · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
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Representation in Cognitive Science
Mental Time Travel
Things and Places
Origins of Objectivity
Complex Demonstratives
Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
Biosemantics
Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays
Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory
Past, Present and Future
Thought without Representation
Reference in remembering
Imagining the past reliably and unreliably
Reminiscing together
Children's Reasoning About the Causal Significance of the Temporal Order of Events
Development of young children's understanding that the recent past is causally bound to the present
The Bounds of Sense
Witnessing, Remembering, and Testifying
Toward a theory of episodic memory
| Highly cited | No |
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