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Episodic memory isn't essentially autonoetic
1Department of Philosophy,University of Maryland,College Park,MD 20742-7615.pcarruth@umd.eduhttp://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|January 23, 2018
Abstract:
I argue that the function attributed to episodic memory by Mahr & Csibra (M&C) - that is, grounding one's claims to epistemic authority over past events - fails to support the essentially autonoetic character of such memories. I suggest, in contrast, that episodic event memories are sometimes purely first order, sometimes autonoetic, depending on relevance in the context.