Beyond the causal theory? Fifty years after Martin and Deutscher. Michaelian, K. & Robins, S. K. In Michaelian, K., Debus, D., & Perrin, D., editors, New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory, pages 13–32. Routledge, New York, 2018. abstract bibtex [first paragraph] It is natural to think of remembering in terms of causation: I can recall a recent dinner with a friend because I experienced that dinner. Some fifty years ago, Martin and Deutscher (1966) turned this basic thought into a full-fledged theory of memory, a theory that—due both to its intuitive plausibility and its apparent success in distinguishing remembering from related processes, including imagining—came over the following decades to dominate the landscape in the philosophy of memory. Previous approaches, such as the empiricist theory,2 had attempted to capture the nature of remembering from a first-person perspective, in terms of its characteristic phenomenology. The causal theory, in contrast, offered a third-personal account of the nature of remembering. Remembering, Martin and Deutscher argue, boils down to the existence of a specific sort of causal connection between the rememberer's original experience of an event and his later representation of that event: a causal connection sustained by a memory trace.
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