Causation and mnemonic roles: on Fernández's Functionalism
Autor | Nikola Andonovski |
Cargo | Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France |
Páginas | 139-153 |
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Estud.filos n.º 64. Julio-diciembre de 2021 | pp. 139-153 | Universidad de Antioquia | ISSN 0121-3628 | ISSN-e 2256-358X
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* This paper is part of a project investigating causation in memory, conducted at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the
Université Grenoble Alpes.
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Andonovski, N. (2021). Causation and mnemonic roles: on Fernández’s Functionalism. Estudios de
Filosofía, 64, 139-153. hps://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n64a07
Causation and mnemonic roles:
on Fernández’s Functionalism*
Nikola Andonovski
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
E-mail: ni.andonovski@gmail.com
Recibido: 15 de enero de 2021 | Aceptado: 25 de mayo de 2021
hps://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n64a07
Abstract: Debates about causation have dominated recent philosophy of memory.
While causal theorists have argued that an appropriate causal connection to a past
experience is necessary for remembering, their opponents have argued that this
necessity condition needs to be relaxed. Recently, Jordi Fernández (2018; 2019) has
aempted to provide such a relaxation. On his functionalist theory of remembering,
a given state need not be caused by a past experience to qualify as a memory; it only
has to realize the relevant functional role in the subject’s mental economy. In this
comment, I argue that Fernández’s theory doesn’t advance the debate about memory
causation. I propose that this debate is best understood as being about the existence
of systems, which support kinds of interactions that map onto the relations dictated
by (causal) theories. Since Fernández’s functionalism tells us very lile about this
empirical question, the theoretical gains from endorsing it are minimal.
Keywords: episodic memory, functionalism, mnemonic role, realization, ceteris
paribus laws
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