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Temporal Concepts and Episodic Memory: A Response to Hoerl
Author(s) -
McCormack Teresa
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00112
Subject(s) - episodic memory , amnesia , cognitive psychology , psychology , cognitive science , chronesthesia , autobiographical memory , epistemology , recall , cognition , neuroscience , philosophy
Hoerl claims that episodic memory is necessary for a concept of the past, and that we should consider some severely amnesic patients as lacking such a concept. I question whether this description of such patients is plausible, and whether it helps us understand lack of insight in amnesia. I finish by arguing that Hoerl’s analysis of what constitutes a concept of the past raises interesting developmental issues.