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Memory and Externalism
Author(s) -
BERNECKER SVEN
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2004.tb00520.x
Subject(s) - externalism , individuation , internalism and externalism , context (archaeology) , subject (documents) , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , cognitive psychology , computer science , psychoanalysis , history , library science , archaeology
Content externalism about memory says that the individuation of memory contents depends on relations the subject bears to his past environment. I defend externalism about memory by arguing that neither philosophical nor psychological considerations stand in the way of accepting the context dependency of memory that follows from externalism.