Immunity to error through misidentification and the functionalist, self-reflexive account of episodic memory
| Autor | Steven James |
| Cargo | West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Páginas | 189-200 |
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Estud.filos n.º 64. Julio-diciembre de 2021 | pp. 189-200 | Universidad de Antioquia | ISSN 0121-3628 | ISSN-e 2256-358X
Immunity to error through misidentification
and the functionalist, self-reflexive account
of episodic memory*
Steven James
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States
E-mail: sjames@wcupa.edu
Recibido: 31 de enero de 2021 | Aceptado: 9 de abril de 2021
hps://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n64a10
Abstract: Fernández (2019) oers an account of the nature of episodic memory
that marries two core ideas: (i) role-functionalism about episodic memory, and (ii)
self-reexive mnemonic content. One payo of this view is that episodic memory
judgments are immune to error through misidentication. Fernández takes this to
reveal something important about the nature of one’s self-awareness in memory and
our rst-person conception of ourselves. However, once one sees why such judgments
are immune in this way, according to the proposed account, the fact that they are
immune becomes moot. While technically immune to error through misidentication,
episodic memory judgments are not grounded in a way such that they have any
interesting epistemological import for the subject (in contrast to other paradigms of
such judgments), and any insights about our self-awareness and self-conception are
directly derivable from the metaphysics of memory content alone.
Keywords: immunity to error through misidentication, memory judgments, episodic
memory, self-awareness, metaphysics of memory
SIMPOSIO
* This paper began as a talk at a workshop on Fernández’s book, Memory: a self-referential account, held at the Centre for
Philosophy of Memory at Université Genoble Alpes. This work has been jointly funded by the Centre for Philosophy of
Memory, and West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Cómo citar este artículo
James, S. (2021). Immunity to error through misidentication and the functionalist, self-reexive
account of episodic memory. Estudios de Filosofía, 64, 189-200. hps://doi.org/10.17533/udea.
ef.n64a10
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