Christoph Hoerl

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Workshop 'Temporal Experience’ 14 November 2025 University of Warwick Social Sciences S0.11 11:00 - 12:00: Julian Bacharach (Trinity College Dublin): 'On the very idea of a temporal perspective' 12:00 - 13:00: Tom Crowther (Warwick): 'The temporal properties of experience in the ordinary biographical sense' Lunch break 14:00 - 15:00: Louise Richardson (York): 'Grief and the authenticity of memory' 15:00 - 16:00: Jack Shardlow (Liverpool):'Temporal experience: A matter of perspective?' 16:30 - 17:30: Matthew Ratcliffe (York): 'Haunting, time, and self: Some phenomenological reflections'

Coming up at Warwick University: Workshop on temporal experience, 14th Nov 2025

Memory and Prospection | 45 | The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Memory and prospection – often termed, more specifically, episodic memory and episodic future thinking – have recently been re-conceptualized as but two aspects

'Memory and Prospection' - Part of the massive new Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Amnesia and Identity Workshop Schedule 24 & 25 September 2025 Day 1 — Wednesday 24 September Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling (Room C22) what3words: ///mascot.wedding.daunted Join online (stream opens 10 minutes be…

Coming up later this week: Workshop on amnesia and identity at Stirling University. With option to join online. placememory.net/amnesia-and-...

The Flow of time: Rationalism vs. empiricism I distinguish between empiricist and rationalist approaches to the idea of the flow of time. The former trace back the idea of the flow of time to the deliverances of our sensory or introspective c...

A new way of looking at some debates in the Philosophy of Time. Now published. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3MSIW...

Workshop—Amnesia and Identity—with Carl Craver This Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory workshop addresses themes from the forthcoming Oxford University Press book Living without Memory: amnesia and the lives of persons by Carl Craver and ...

Amnesia and Identity workshop at @memoryplace.bsky.social, Stirling Uni, Scotland
Sept 24-25. Themes from forthcoming Oxford UP book Living without Memory: amnesia and the lives of persons, by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum. Register here to attend in person or online forms.gle/B2mLpgjJhNUR...

Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology This volume brings together, for the first time, perspectives from philosophy and psychology to investigate the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency. Autobiographical memory is the ability ...

Looking forward to this one going into print soon. www.routledge.com/Autobiograph...

Discounting past experience and the utility of memory: an empirical study - Synthese It has been argued that adult humans are absolutely time biased towards the future, at least as far as purely hedonic experiences (pain/pleasure) are concerned. What this means is that they assign zer...

Remembering painful experiences can itself be a source of pain. How much does the question as to whether people will remember factor into their decision making? New paper by Shardlow et al.
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Understanding memory Explore the article collection: Understanding memory. Published in Philosophical Psychology.

We have a new online collection of papers on #memory and from tomorrow they will all be open access for a month! www.tandfonline.com/journals/cph... Enjoy #philsky!

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Sanders, perhaps the only Pragmatist at Warwick

"I should say that there are a great many different experiences, some of them feelings, which we might call 'experiences (feelings) of familiarity'." Some reflections in the spirit of Wittgenstein's remark:

The Butcher on the Bus Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)

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
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Table of contents for theme issue on ‘Elements of episodic memory: lessons from 40 years of research’ - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/379/1913

From a wonderfully wide-ranging theme issue representing current work on episodic memory - a very fitting tribute to Endel Tulving

The history of episodic memory | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Over the course of his research, Endel Tulving offered a number of somewhat different characterizations of episodic memory. Do they indicate that he changed his mind over time as to what episodic memo...

Now open access: 'The history of episodic memory': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The history of episodic memory. Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack Over the course of his research, Endel Tulving offered a number of somewhat different characterizations of episodic memory. Do they indicate that he changed his mind over time as to what episodic memory is, or did his core understanding of the nature of episodic memory stay the same? We offer some support for the latter claim, and for thinking that, throughout his life, Tulving took as a defining feature of episodic memory the distinctive awareness of the self in time it involves. We argue that it is easier to see the continuities rather than the discontinuities in Tulving’s writings once their historical context is taken into account, where this involves both the authors who influenced his thinking, as well as the intellectual climate at at the different times he was writing. We also discuss two recent bodies of work on episodic memory that take aspects of Tulving’s writings as their point of departure.

Coming up in Philosophical Transactions B: 'The history of episodic memory'

Singular thought without temporal representation? - Synthese What is required for an individual to entertain a singular thought about an object they have encountered before but that is currently no longer within their perceptual range? More specifically, does t...

'Singular thought without temporal representation?' This ended up being mainly about dogs (and a few clever ravens). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A short paper in a bit of an out-of-the-way place (Open Access tho). However, it gave me an opportunity to write about an issue I'd been thinking about for a while.

The Mechanics of Representing Time Abstract A number of recent attempts to explain the apparent contrast between ‘human time’ and ‘physical time’ have appealed to sketch of an ‘Information Gathering and Utilizing System’ (IGUS) as a mo...

'The Mechanics of Representing Time'. Now officially out: doi.org/10.1163/2213...

The Schopenhauerian Mind | David Bather Woods, Timothy Stoll | Taylor Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is now recognised as a figure of canonical importance to the history of philosophy. Schopenhauer founded his system on a highly

Feel a bit of an impostor writing about Schopenhauer, given the amount of expertise about the man elsewhere in my department. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Coming soon: 'Singular thought without temporal representation?' Synthese.