The Memory Palace wraps up our season with a post from Dylan Trigg (CEU), arguing for a return to the richer, historical notion of nostalgia. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Highlights from the most recent SSPP meeting are up at the Brains Blog this week. I started things off with some thoughts about the distinctive virtues of the SSPP model for an interdisciplinary conference. Thoughts? Objections? Let’s get our hands on some ketamine and hash it out!

This week we are very happy to co-host a series of posts with the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, featuring work from this year's annual meeting!  Check out posts each day of the week on the blog.

What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

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...

How much of our self-knowledge comes from memory? Ben Winokur (University of Macau) is at The Memory Palace today on the complicated process by which self-knowledge requires belief in one's own memory. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Catching my breath after an amazing 3 days at #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Bit terrifying to close out such a stellar meeting, but absolutely worth it for the conversations afterward. thanks @tjryan.bsky.social for one hell of an engram!

PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

Day 28 (breakthrough): The brain's memory "engram" - a tremendous cumultative brain research accomplishment that unfolded across a century, including multiple Nobel prizes. Also a terrific test case for the question: How does progress in (neuro)science happen? #ElusiveCures30

Radical Enactivism purports to explain remembering without reliance on the age-old memory trace. Dan Hutto is at The Memory Palace today, arguing for Radical Enactivism’s advantage in characterizing memory from mice to large language models. Take a look!

Very excited for this Engrams and Ensembles meeting next week in Dublin!

You get to keep one memory from your personal past. This is the provocative premise from which Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) begins his post at The Memory Palace today. A great read! #philsky #philscisky

The philosophy of memory is growing in Japan! Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology) is at The Memory Palace today discussing recent and upcoming events, and the unique ways of this community is expanding the topics under consideration. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

When it comes to episodic memory, what distinguishes us from other animals? @cameronbuckner.bsky.social and Hunter Gentry are at The Memory Palace today, with a novel proposal (hint: it's not mental time travel!). Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Many of ethical dimensions of memory modification depend on the value framework from which you view the issue. Mona Jahangiri (Göttingen) is at The Memory Palace today, using Mullā Ṣadrā's work in Islamic Philosophy to explore issues surrounding memory, identity, and trauma. #philsky #philscisky

The world's first heavyweight wrestling champion also wrote a book on memory, advocating for forgetting as much as possible, to allow ourselves to understand our intrinsic nature. Check out @dranseika.bsky.social post on George Hackenschmidt at The Memory Palace today! #philsky #philscisky

The quest to naturalize memory offers a limited conception of our capacities to retain the past. What if we saw memory as a social kind instead? Alison Springle explores this question at The Memory Palace today. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

Revisiting memories, alone and with others, changes the horizon of associated experience. Daniel Gyollai (Copenhagen) is at The Memory Palace today, offering a thought-provoking Husserlian perspective on perspectives. Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

So...my new book is now apparently out ( global.oup.com/academic/pro...)! I haven't seen a physical copy, but others apparently have... so that's cool. The book provides an account of why humans think in the distinctive ways we do—with nods towards AI, etc.

Sometimes, remembering how you once felt feels as foreign as imagining how it would feel to be someone else. Megan Entwistle (WUSTL) is at The Memory Palace today, discussing this puzzle of perspectival forgetting. A great read! #philsky #philscisky

How does our sense of memory errors change if we adopt a teleosemantic view? Krystyna Bielecka (University of Bialystok) is at The Memory Palace today applying her recent book on misrepresentation to problems of memory error. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

If you didn’t already have FOMO, for PhOMO, you will after reading @openshaw.bsky.social post The Memory Palace today. A great overview of the philosophy of memory organization and its recent initiatives and developments. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

Severance features a set of people who have opted to mentally sever their work selves from the rest of their lives. What about grief and trauma makes this seem like the right choice? Em Walsh (UCF) explores this question at The Memory Palace today, with characteristic care and subtlety. Enjoy!

The Memory Palace doing what we can to share the love of philosophy of memory more widely. ❤️❤️❤️ ¡Besos! #philsky #philscisky

The Memory Palace is back! We’re starting with a fantastic post from Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez on a recent conference and the consequences of restricting philosophy of memory to English. A great read and a great project! #philsky #philscisky

We will feature this article in the January session of the International Memory Reading Group:

Finishing off The Memory Palace 2024 series with a post from Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin, reflecting on the past, present, and future of their impressive and influential Centre for Philosophy of Memory in Grenoble. Enjoy, and we'll see you in the new year! #philsky #philscisky

SPAN 2025: Call for papers 🧠 Submission deadline: February 1, 2025 Keynote and invited symposia schedule coming soon! Visit: philandneuro.com/submissions

The #IPM4.5 call for papers is open! Taking place on 22–23 May, this year's conference introduces a new format. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March. Submit here:

What and how we remember is not simply a given; it's something we learn to do. César Schirmer Dos Santos is at The Memory Palace this week, exploring the significance of this idea. Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

Graduate Admissions season is here! Philosofriends, encourage your students looking for programs to put Purdue on their lists. We're a big, active department on the rise, where students get broad training and good support. Our application deadline is one month away: Jan 6, 2025 #philsky

Episodic memories depict the past. This suggests it may be profitable to think of memories as pictures. Kristina Liefke is at The Memory Palace today exploring this fruitful intersection. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

The sense(s) of touch provides a boundary through which we can understand ourselves. How is this sense of bounded self retained in memory? Iva Apostolova is at The Memory Palace today, exploring the connections between memory and touch. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

Philosophers and psychologists- don't forget to submit to the OG conference! The SSPP has long fostered deep conversations between philosophers and psychologists-and has long been a place for animal cognition researchers and philosophers to exchange ideas. Deadline for Phil Nov 22, for Psych Dec 1

The SPP can for papers is out. The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites submissions of papers to be presented at its 51st Annual Meeting, to be held June 19-21, 2025 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Please submit an abstract by January 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EST.

Changsheng Lai is at The Memory Palace today, previewing the 2nd Shanghai-Grenoble philosophy of memory conference, on memory and meta cognition. A great preview, and an invitation to join the event virtually! #philsky #philscisky

This was such a fun session - a great opportunity to explore engram circuits in particular and neural circuits in general. #psa2024

The structure of memory processes in the brain may provide unique sources of support for our beliefs. Uku Tooming and Kengo Miyazono are at The Memory Palace, exploring the nature and significance of this form of epistemic generatively. Highly recommend! #philsky #philscisky

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

When a memory comes to mind, is it in the same way that familiar people can be hard to place out of context - recognizable, but hard to place? @christophhoerl.bsky.social (Warwick) is at The Palace today, unraveling the idea of familiarity as a marker for memory. A great read! #philsky #philscisky

You're not dreaming: it's another post from The Memory Palace! A bonus entry this week, from Daniel Gregory and Kirk Michaelian on their edited volume Dreaming & Memory, which is fresh off the press from Springer this week - Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

Thanks to social media like 🟦☁️, the past is never more than a few clicks away. Does this infringe on a right to have such socially-available information about us fade over time? @hcarnegy.bsky.social is at The Memory Palace today, discussing 'right to be forgotten' legislation. Take a look!

Our memories of the past and stories we tell about ourselves are deeply interwoven - and connected to our physical and social world. @reginafabry.bsky.social is at The Palace today discussing the dynamic relationship between memory, narrative, and the social. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky

“Why do precisely these memories constitute my past?” Carlos Montemayor (SFSU) poses this question at the Memory Palace today, exploring two senses in which we can be familiar with our past. Take a look! #philsky #philscisky

To keep relationships going forward, it helps to talk about the past. @jomahr.bsky.social is at The Memory Palace today, sharing insights about joint reminiscing and its communicative and epistemic power. Give it a read - and then call a friend! #philsky #philscisky

Cultural memory and memorialization shape how members of a society experience and repair from past wrongdoing. Melanie Albanian (University of Freiburg) is at The Memory Palace today, sharing themes from her recent, open access book The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism. #philsky #philscisky

Does it seem like ages since our last post, or as if it was only yesterday? Wherever it is on your mental timeline, Jerry Viera is at the Palace today to raise some interesting puzzles for the phenomenon - and point toward the future via the study of perception. Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

Forgiveness as a lens through which to explore the content of episodic memory. @felipedebrigard.bsky.social and Gabriela Fernández Miranda are at The Memory Palace today, sharing their beautiful and important work on memory and forgiveness in Colombia. A great read! #philsky #philscisky

Today at The Memory Palace: What is it like to remember your past when you don't use mental images to do so? Margherita Arcangeli on episodic memory and aphantasia, with a compelling suggestion to broaden our ideas of memory phenomenology. Enjoy! #philsky #philscisky

And we're back! Season 2 of The Memory Palace starts today, with a beautiful post about dreaming and memory from Melanie Rosen. A thought-provoking read and a great start to our fall lineup! #philsky #philscisky