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    Explanatory Contextualism about Episodic Memory: Towards A Diagnosis of the Causalist-Simulationist Debate

    We argue that the causal theory of memory and the simulation theory of memory are not as straightforwardly incompatible as they are usually taken to be. Following a brief review of the theories, we describe al...

    Christopher Jude McCarroll, Kourken Michaelian, Bence Nanay in Erkenntnis (2024)

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    Cryptomnesia: a three-factor account

    Understood as a psychological phenomenon, there has been very little discussion of cryptomnesia in the philosophical literature. Cryptomnesia presents us with a strange phenomenon in which we take ourselves to...

    Christopher Jude McCarroll, André Sant’Anna in Synthese (2023)

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    Rewarding one’s Future Self: Psychological Connectedness, Episodic Prospection, and a Puzzle about Perspective

    When faced with intertemporal choices, which have consequences that unfold over time, we often discount the future, preferring smaller immediate rewards often at the expense of long-term benefits. How psycholo...

    Christopher Jude McCarroll, Erica Cosentino in Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2020)