When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives. thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/is-forgett...

How do we recall the memory of events that may happen repeatedly, such as our own birthday?  Today at The Memory Palace, Katja Crone analyzes different types of memory, including what she terms "generic" memory, when it comes to frequent events. thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/how-we-rec...

Do you know that the Memory Palace publishes research not only in English but also in Spanish? Check out this post from Sarah Robins to know more about this initiative! thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/fiesta-en-...

What does it mean that memory is epistemically blurry? Today at the Memory Palace, Uljana Feest discusses this important question and gives us a preview of her book "Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration". open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

How does explicit memory, like episodic memory, shape implicit attitudes? Today at the Memory Palace, Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) discusses this and other questions, with particular attention to implicit biases and their harmful consequences. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

After a summer break, the Memory Palace is back with an exciting post on good and bad forms of commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai (University of Stirling). Exciting news about the Palace's projects are coming soon! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Today, we end the first cycle of posts for 2025 with Dylan Trigg's reflections on nostalgia and grief. We are coming back after a summer break with new exciting posts and initiatives at the Memory Palace. Stay tuned! substack.com/@philmemoryp...

Episodic remembering comes with a complex phenomenology. How can we account for it? Which methodology is best suited to study it? Today, Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum) shares some very interesting ideas about these questions. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What's the role of memory in self-knowledge? Which type of memory is the most relevant one for getting to know ourselves better, e.g., our own beliefs? Today at the Memory Palace, Ben Winokur (University of Macau) explores these exciting questions. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

If Large Language Models can remember without a trace, also humans can do so. Today at the Memory Palace, Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong) discusses this provocative and exciting idea. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

If you could hold on to just a single memory, just one episode from your personal past, what would it be? Today at the Memory Palace, Chris McCarroll investigates this exciting question about personal memory. A highly recommended reading! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A great post on the philosophy of memory in Japan from Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology) open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Would you like to learn more about memory in non-human animals? Please, check today's exciting post from Hunter Gentry (Kansas State University) and Cameron Buckner (University of Florida) if you want to do so. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

If you want to know more on the ethics of memory dampening, you should really check this awesome post by Mona Jahangiri (University of Göttingen). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

An exciting post on George Hackenschmidt's philosophy of memory (and more), authored by Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What if memory were a social kind, like race, gender, and love? What does that would mean for the ways we can study it? Today, at the Memory Palace, Alison Springle (University of Miami) discusses these and other exciting questions about our memory systems. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A fantastic post on looking back at our personal past from new perspectives, authored by Daniel Gyollai (University of Copenhagen). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A very cool post on perspectival forgetting from Megan Entwistle (Washington University in St. Louis). A highly recommended reading. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A very cool post from Krystyna Bielecka (Institute of Philosophy, University of Białystok), in which she gives fantastic overview of her teleosemantic account of episodic memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Great post from on the past, present, and future of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, authored by James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A beautiful post from Em Walsh (University of Central Florida), discussing trauma, grief, and the politics of traumatic memory. Mild spoiler alert: the post discusses Severance and it gives some sneak info about what happens in the TV show. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Today we have Sarah Robins, introducing a new multilingual initiative at the Memory Palace. We are going to start to translate and have new posts in Spanish for now, but we are looking forward to publish content in many other languages. Volunteer translators are welcome! substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Memory Palace is back with an exciting post from Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez (University of Western Australia). The post is available in English and Spanish. thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/memories-p...

Very exciting post on the past, present, and future of the Centre for Philosophy of Memory (University of Grenoble Alpes), from Kirk Michaelian and Denis Perrin. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A very interesting post on how we learn to remember, from César Schirmer dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria)! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What do pictures and episodic memories have in common? In today's post, Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum) investigates this important question through the tools of picture semantics. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

A very exciting post from Iva Apostolova (St. Paul University) on the the relationship between touch and memory! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

An exciting preview of the the Second Shanghai-Grenoble Philosophy of Memory Workshop. Many thanks to Changsheng Lai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) for his post! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Does memory give us reasons to trust our own beliefs? If yes, in what ways? In today's exciting post, Uku Tooming (University of Tartu) & Kengo Miyazono (Hokkaido University) address these and other questions about episodic memory. Please, have a look! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What does the feeling of familiarity tell us about episodic memory and how we should study it? Today at the Memory Palace, Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick) discusses this challenging question about memory for our personal past. @christophhoerl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

An exciting post about "Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues", from Daniel Gregory (University of Salzburg) and Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes). A great preview of a very cool book on the joint study of memory and dreams! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

We usually want to leave our mistakes in the past. Does that mean that they need to be forgotten? In today's post, Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott (@hcarnegy.bsky.social) this exciting question about the right to be forgotten and accountability. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

How do social structures influence self-narratives? What is the role of such an influence in remembering events of our personal past? In today's post, Regina Fabry (@reginafabry.bsky.social) investigates these and other exciting questions about our personal memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What makes memory a good source of knowledge? What is the role of accuracy, relevance, and familiarity in proper memory functioning? Today, Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University) discusses these and other questions about episodic memory. substack.com/home/post/p-...

What do we do when we remember together? In today's post, Johannes Mahr (York University) argues that joint remembering is a very important social tool, a tool for communication and for bonding. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Could there be “epistemic as­saults” on truthful memory that violate the dignity of genocide survivors and their descendants? In today's post, Melanie Altanian investigates this and other important questions about collective traumatic memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Why are some memories precisely located in time and others aren't? Today at the Memory Palace, Jerry Viera (University of Sheffield) investigates this and many other questions about time and episodic memory. substack.com/home/post/p-...

What does forgetting tell us about the function of episodic memory - memory for events of our personal past? In today's post, Marta Caravà shares some ideas about this and other questions about forgetting. substack.com/home/post/p-...

What do we remember and what do we forget when we forgive? Today at the Memory Palace, Felipe De Brigard and Gabriela Fernández-Miranda tell us how they answer this question in their exciting project "Memory and Forgiveness". open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What does the inability to form mental images say about episodic memory? Today at the Memory Palace, Margherita Arcangeli (Institut Jean Nicod) explores this question and shares her fantastic research on memory and aphantasia. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

After enjoying a little bit of summer, The Memory Palace is glad to open its doors again, with an exciting post on dreams and memory from Melanie Rosen (Trent University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Marta Caravà's last post on IPM4 4 is now available in Chinese. Thanks to Changsheng Lai and Yuping Wang for this fantastic collaboration. We'll be back in August after a summer break, with a new lineup of contributors from around the globe. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HDHHbMIRLC...

Wrapping up our first series of posts at The Memory Palace, reflections on IPM4 by Marta Caravà - and a call to build a collective memory of the event. The Memory Palace will now enjoy a bit of summer. We’ll return in late August! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

New post by André Sant'Anna, introducing us to the beautiful Conference "Issues in Philosophy of Memory 4" now happening in Geneva! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

What does it take to learn from our personal past? How does this type of learning differ from learning from others' testimony? Today at the Memory Palace, Dorothea Debus explores these and many other questions. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

"Memory gets your past experience right but the past world wrong. But what if memory corrects an error?". Today, Matthew Frise writes about this question and many others, exploring some core topics in the epistemology of memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Can remembering our past from the outside help us understand others? Today at the Memory Palace, Ying-Tung Lin writes about observer memory and mind-reading, arguing that episodic memory sometimes works as a powerful inner social lab. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Can we ever go back to ways of thinking and believing we had in the past? If yes, how so? Today at the Memory Palace, Sara Aronowitz explores these questions and presents her new project on reversals and disillusion in learning. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why do we share our memories of the past? Today at The Memory Palace, Nazim Keven argues that we do so to assess other people's past behavior, to choose who to collaborate with, to create and maintain social relationships, and much more. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Today, artist Becky Moon talks about what it is like to do philosophy of memory through art, how reading research on memory has changed her way of doing art, how she has worked on her painting for the Memory Palace, and much more. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...