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Prof. Dr. Markus Werning (Bochum): "When memories of others become memories of ourselves"

Am 7. November wird Prof. Dr. Markus Werning (Bochum) zum Thema "When memories of others become memories of ourselves: The problem of vicarious memories" vortragen.

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Im Wintersemester 2023/24 ist das Institutskolloquium aktuellen Themen der Philosophie des Geistes gewidmet.

Am 7. November wird Prof. Dr. Markus Werning (Bochum) zum Thema "When memories of others become memories of ourselves: The problem of vicarious memories" vortragen. Hier finden Sie eine Zusammenfassung des Vortrags:

Vicarious memories are memories of events that people did not live through themselves, but were reported to them by others – typically close friends and relatives – in a vivid, detailed, and immersive way (Pillemer et al. 2015). Still, many vicarious memories have a phenomenology similar to paradigmatic cases of episodic memories from personal experiences. Acknowledging that personal episodic memories and vicarious memories can be conceptually distinguished, the talk challenges the widely held view that vicarious memories differ in kind from episodic memories. I will address this issue from a semantic, phenomenological, epistemological, and natural-kind based perspective. My conclusion will have consequences for the epistemically privileged status of eye-witnesses, the nature of flashbulb memories, and so-called (second generation) postmemories.