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Eliminating episodic memory?Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. forthcoming.In Tulving’s initial characterization, episodic memory was one of multiple memory systems. It was postulated, in pursuit of explanatory depth, as displaying proprietary operations, representations, and substrates such as to explain a range of cognitive, behavioural, and experiential phenomena. Yet the subsequent development of this research program has, paradoxically, introduced surprising doubts about the nature, and indeed existence, of episodic memory. On dominant versions of the ‘common syst…Read more
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Autonoesis and episodicity: Perspectives from philosophy of memoryWIREs Cognitive Science. 2023.The idea that episodic memory is distinguished from semantic memory by the fact that it involves autonoetic consciousness, initially introduced by Tulving, has been influential not only in psychology but also in philosophy, where a variety of approaches to autonoesis and to its relationship to episodicity have been developed. This article provides a critical review of the available philosophical approaches. Distinguishing among representational, metacognitive, and epistemic accounts of autonoesi…Read more
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Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial dataEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 13 (3): 1-42. 2023.The Galilean explanatory style is characterized by the search for the underlying structure of phenomena, the positing of "deep" explanatory principles, and a view of the relation between theory and data, on which the search for "crucial data" is of primary importance. In this paper, I trace the dynamics of adopting the Galilean style, focusing on the science of episodic memory. I argue that memory systems, such as episodic and semantic memory, were posited as underlying competences producing the…Read more
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Episodic representation: A mental models accountFrontiers in Psychology 13 899371. 2022.This paper offers a modeling account of episodic representation. I argue that the episodic system constructsmental models: representations that preserve the spatiotemporal structure of represented domains. In prototypical cases, these domains are events: occurrences taken by subjects to have characteristic structures, dynamics and relatively determinate beginnings and ends. Due to their simplicity and manipulability, mental event models can be used in a variety of cognitive contexts: in remember…Read more
Nikola Andonovski
Université Grenoble Alpes.
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Université Grenoble Alpes.Post-doctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
PhD, 2020
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Areas of Interest
Theories of Memory |
Memory and Cognitive Science |
Theories of Representation |