Eduardo Vicentini De Medeiros (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul): Publications - PhilPeople

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Department of Philosophy

Graduate student

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Mind

19th Century Philosophy

20th Century Philosophy

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The philosophy of episodic memory and moral agency
Filosofia Unisinos 19 (1). 2018.

Presentation for the dossier.
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Undoing one’s past
Filosofia Unisinos 19 (1). 2018.

In contemporary research on memory, the idea of mental time travel (MTT) has been connected, at the functional level, with planning and imagining what might occur in one’s future. Episodic memory impacts on our capacity to move imaginatively towards possible scenarios ahead. Consequently, Gerrans and Kennett (2010, 2016) urge us to agree that MTT is essential to moral agency. In this paper, we suggest that if we conceive the specific varieties of MTT as something more than remembering one’s past…Read more
In contemporary research on memory, the idea of mental time travel (MTT) has been connected, at the functional level, with planning and imagining what might occur in one’s future. Episodic memory impacts on our capacity to move imaginatively towards possible scenarios ahead. Consequently, Gerrans and Kennett (2010, 2016) urge us to agree that MTT is essential to moral agency. In this paper, we suggest that if we conceive the specific varieties of MTT as something more than remembering one’s past and imagining one’s future, then the capacity of undoing one’s past both by episodic counterfactual thinking and the emotion of regret must be considered essential to moral agency on equal terms. Keywords: moral agency, Mental Time Travel, episodic counterfactual thinking, regret.