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Multiperspectival Imagery: Sartre and Cognitive Theory on Point of View in Remembering and Imagining
When remembering events from one’s life, one often visualises the remembered scene as one originally experienced it: from an ‘internal’, ‘own-eyes’, ‘first-person’, or ‘field’ perspective. Sometimes, however, ...
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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...
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Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination: The roles of mental time travel and metacognition
We tend to seek immediate gratification at the expense of long-term reward. In fact, the more distant a reward is from the present moment?the more we tend to discount it. This phenomenon is known as temporal d...
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Perspective
The imagery we adopt when recalling the personal past may involve different perspectives. In many cases, we remember the past event from our original point of view. In some cases, however, we remember the past...
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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...
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Open AccessMourning a death foretold: memory and mental time travel in anticipatory grief
Grief is a complex emotional experience or process, which is typically felt in response to the death of a loved one, most typically a family member, child, or partner. Yet the way in which grief manifests is muc...
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Open AccessExplanatory 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...
