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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 1d

“Implicit attitudes are a blend of habit and history” says Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) in her post at The Memory Palace today. This raises many challenging questions about the role of episodic memory. Take a look!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 1d

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.
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How Memory Shapes Implicit Attitudes

Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 6d

The Memory Palace is back for a new season! Starting with a great post on controversial commemoration from Ten-Herng Lai. Take a look!

The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 8d

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!
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Commemoration and Controversy

Ten-Herng Lai (University of Stirling)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Jul 6

So happy for you Syed!!! And so happy for UT-Arlington!

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Jun 10

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Jun 10

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!
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Nostalgia and Grief

Dylan Trigg (Central European University)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congrats Vanessa! So well deserved ❤️

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Jun 6

Kidding about the ketamine, obv.

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Jun 6

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!

Brains @philosophyofbrains.com · Jun 2

SSPP 2025: Sarah Robins on SSPP

By Sarah Robins, Purdue University Thanks to the Brains Blog for featuring some of the great work from the latest SSPP meeting this week. There are several ‘phil & psych societies’, so it feels worth kicking off the week with a note about what distinguishes the…

SSPP 2025: Sarah Robins on SSPP

By Sarah Robins, Purdue University Thanks to the Brains Blog for featuring some of the great work from the latest SSPP meeting this week. There are several ‘phil & psych societies’, so it feels worth kicking off the week with a note about what distinguishes the SSPP. The SSPP is, so far as I know, the oldest/longest running of these organizations.

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Brains @philosophyofbrains.com · Jun 3

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.

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Jun 3

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Jun 3

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.
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What does it mean to relive an experience through remembering?

Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum)

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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Jun 3

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.
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What does it mean to relive an experience through remembering?

Francesca Righetti (Ruhr University Bochum)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · May 20

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · May 20

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.
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Memory and Self-Knowledge

Benjamin Winokur (University of Macau)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · May 17

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!

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Philosophy of Memory Organization @phomo.bsky.social · May 14

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

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · May 13

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

Ideas about memory, as we know them today, can be traced back to the early 1900s with memory researcher Richard Semon’s proposal that excitation in the brain leaves behind an imprint called an engram, and this engram is the physical basis of a memory. A little over a century later, we now know where this happens in the brain (the hippocampus) and how it happens (via the excitation of neurons, triggering a cascade of molecular events), and we have sophisticated theories about how memories are triggered by things that are associated with them (like a photograph). We can even reactivate, erase, and implant memories, at least in mice. How did all this progress transpire?

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · May 6

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!

The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · May 6

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.
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Remembering Without a Trace of a Trace: Of Mice, Humans, and LLMs

Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · May 6

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

Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · May 4

Just 3 days left to register for Engrams and Ensembles in Learning and Memory '25.

We have 40 X outstanding speakers, 70 X Posters, a Keynote Lecture from Thomas Südhof & a neurophilosophical summation from @sarahrobins.bsky.social

Agenda:
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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Apr 29

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 29

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!
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A Single Memory

Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Apr 22

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 22

A great post on the philosophy of memory in Japan from Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
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The Philosophy of Memory in Japan

Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Apr 15

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.
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Where did I leave my episode, again?

Hunter Gentry (Kansas State University) and Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Apr 8

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.
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 8

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).
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Between Memory and Identity: Trauma and the Self in Islamic Philosophy

Mona Jahangiri (University of Göttingen)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Apr 1

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Apr 1

An exciting post on George Hackenschmidt's philosophy of memory (and more), authored by Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University).
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The Man Who Wrestled with Memory

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Mar 25

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!

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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.
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A Social Critical Metaphysics of Memory: A Manifesto

Alison Springle (University of Miami)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Mar 18

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!
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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · Mar 18

A fantastic post on looking back at our personal past from new perspectives, authored by Daniel Gyollai (University of Copenhagen).
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The determinable indeterminacy of our past

Daniel Gyollai (University of Copenhagen)

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · Mar 11

Congrats Armin! Can’t wait to read

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awschulz.bsky.social @awschulz.bsky.social · Mar 10

So...my new book is now apparently out (
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