Philosophy 220/320
Metaphysics and Epistemology 

Spring Quarter 2001
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Chapter 3: Memory
 
  1. What is a memory belief? How is a memory belief different from a belief about the past?

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  3. How do memory beliefs differ from genuine remembering?

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  5. What kind of ‘objects’ do we remember? Past events, surely. But do we remember anything else?

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  7. What does Audi mean by the ‘storehouse of memory’?

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  9. What is the difference between memory, remembering, and recalling?

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  11. What is the difference between propositional memory and memory of an event?

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  13. What is the difference between the direct realist and indirect (or representational) realist view of memory?

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  15. What is the difference between memory images and sense-data? How can we distinguish remembering from perceiving if we have a representational view of both?

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  17. Can you imagine a past event without having a direct acquaintance with a sense-datum representation of it?

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  19. Does remembering require images?

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  21. What does it mean to say that remembering (and perceiving) are epistemically direct?

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  23. What is involved in ‘realizing a memorial capacity’?

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  25. What is the difference between actively remembering and passively remembering?

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  27. What are the parallels between the adverbial theory of remembering and the adverbial theory of perception? Are there any significant differences between then?

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  29. Is there a difference between active remembering and recalling?

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  31. What does it mean to say that memory is not a basic source of belief or knowledge? And, if that is so, how can it be a basic source of justification?