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SUMMARY:Memory: what is it good for? - Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall\, Cambridge
 )
DTSTART:20181114T130000Z
DTEND:20181114T143000Z
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly\, memory researchers are of the view that memory 
 is not for remembering. That is\, we do not have episodic memories (memori
 es of personally experienced events) because being able to remember is its
 elf beneficial\, but because it confers some other advantage - most often\
 , the ability to 'project' oneself into the future. This claim has been us
 ed to lend support to novel accounts of episodic memory's nature\, and to 
 motivate new evidential standards for its detection in animals. In this ta
 lk\, I aim to show that the arguments for this claim are unsound\, and off
 er a (qualified) defence of the view that remembering is the function of e
 pisodic memory.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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