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Is remembering constructive imagining?

Published inSynthese, vol. 202, no. 5, p. 1-28; 141
Publication date2023-10-26
First online date2023-10-26
Abstract

The (dis)continuism debate — the debate over whether remembering is a form of imagining — is a prominent one in contemporary philosophy of memory. In recent work, Langland-Hassan (2021) has argued that this debate is best understood as a dispute over whether remembering is a form of constructive imagining. In this paper, I argue that remembering is not a form of constructive imagining because constructive processes in remembering and imagining are constrained, and hence controlled, in different ways at the level of consciousness. More specifically, I argue that remembering and imagining differ in terms of the interventions we can make on the constructive processes as they unfold. If this is correct, then a form of discontinuism is vindicated: remembering and imagining are, on this view, processes of different kinds.

Keywords
  • Remembering
  • Imagining
  • Control
  • Construction
  • Discontinuism
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ROSOLEM SANT’ANNA, André. Is remembering constructive imagining? In: Synthese, 2023, vol. 202, n° 5, p. 1–28. doi: 10.1007/s11229-023-04338-5
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