Russell on memory. Judson, L. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 88(1):65–82, 1988.
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[first paragraph] The subject of my paper is Russell's account of memory in The Analysis of Mind.1 His analysis focuses on a certain type of remembering, and comprises a number of elements. Firstly, the occurrence of memory-images; these images are attended by a feeling of familiarity, which prompts the memory-belief, and which explains how we can have varying degrees of confidence in different parts of the imagery, and hence can criticise the images—i.e. assess them as more or less accurate—even though the past experience from which they derive is no longer available for comparison (AM, pp. 161-2). The imagery can also be attended by a feeling of pastness, which can likewise vary in degree, and which at the fundamental level explains our ability to arrange remembered events in a temporal order (AM, pp. 162-3). Finally, there is the memory-belief: the content of this is provided in some way by the imagery, while Russell offers an analysis of belief as itself being a sort of feeling appropriately related to the content.
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abstract = {[first paragraph] The subject of my paper is Russell's account of memory in The Analysis of Mind.1 His analysis focuses on a certain type of remembering, and comprises a number of elements. Firstly, the occurrence of memory-images; these images are attended by a feeling of familiarity, which prompts the memory-belief, and which explains how we can have varying degrees of confidence in different parts of the imagery, and hence can criticise the images—i.e. assess them as more or less accurate—even though the past experience from which they derive is no longer available for comparison (AM, pp. 161-2). The imagery can also be attended by a feeling of pastness, which can likewise vary in degree, and which at the fundamental level explains our ability to arrange remembered events in a temporal order (AM, pp. 162-3). Finally, there is the memory-belief: the content of this is provided in some way by the imagery, while Russell offers an analysis of belief as itself being a sort of feeling appropriately related to the content.},
author = {Judson, Lindsay},
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