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Philosophy of Memory
Mnemosyne + Gnosis
Created on 2005-02-03 16:01:58 (#6005848), last updated 2009-11-19
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Basic Info| Name: | Susannah Kate Devitt |
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| Website: | My Webpage |
BioPlease assume ... that there is in our souls a block of wax, in one case larger, in another smaller, in one case the wax is purer, in another more impure and harder, in some cases softer, and in some of proper quality...Let us, then, say that this is the gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses, and that whenever we wish to remember anything we see or hear or think of in our own minds, we hold this wax under the perceptions and thoughts and imprint them upon it, just as we make impressions from seal rings; and whatever is imprinted we remember and know as long as its image lasts, but whatever is rubbed out or cannot be imprinted we forget and do not know."I am a PhD candidate in philosophy and cognitive science at Rutgers University and this is a journal for research and commentary on my dissertation on memory. My journal's name comes from Mnemosyne (the mother of the muses) and gnosis. Memory is at the core of cognition. The more we understand memory, the more we understand ourselves.
Socrates to Theaetetus. Plato, Theaetetus 191d
Philosophy Department, Rutgers University
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Email: skdevitt at gmail.com
Blog: Mnemosynosis
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alvin goldman, aristotle, brian mclaughlin, cognitive science, concepts, content, daniel schacter, elizabeth loftus, epistemology, ernie sosa, false memories, false memory, forget, forgetting, gnosis, hume, imagination, imagining, jerry fodor, john hawthorne, justified belief, kim sterelny, knowing, knowledge, locke, memory, mental images, mind's eye, misremembering, mnemonics, mnemosyne, neil thomason, peter godfrey-smith, peter klein, peter slezak, philosophy, philosophy of mind, recollecting, recollection, reliability, remember, remembering, rochel gelman, ruth millikan, vivacity, vivid memories, zenon pylyshyn
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