NACH OBEN

MEMORY & LANGUAGE: The semantics of remembering

Venue: Ruhr University Bochum, SSC building, Room 2/148
Date: Nov. 19-20, 2024
Organizers: Kristina Liefke, Denis Perrin, Andre Sant'Anna
Program: see here

Description: This workshop reflects a growing interest in topics at the intersection of philosophy of memory and semantics/philosophy of language. For illustration, the workshop announcement listed topics like the nature of memory reports, the accuracy conditions of remembering, and the nature of mnemic reference.

Schedule:

Tuesday, Nov. 19:

  • 09:00--09:30: Kristina Liefke (Bochum), Denis Perrin (Grenoble), & Andre Sant'Anna (Geneva): Introduction
  • 09:30--10:20: James Openshaw (Singapore, virtual): Generalised remembering
  • 10:20--10:40: Coffee break
  • 10:40--11:30: Kourken Michaelian (Grenoble): Mnemic reference and the causal theory of memory
  • 11:30--12:20: Jose Carlos Camillo (Bochum/Goias): What does episodic memory represent? A mechanistic account
  • 12:20--14:10: Lunch break
  • 14:10--15:00: Emil Eva Rosina (Bochum): Agent-relative semantic ascent at the margins of remembering
  • 15:00--15:50: Jakub Rudnicki (Grenoble): Singular thought, 'dthat', and episodic memory
  • 15:50--16:00: Group photo
  • 16:00--16:20: Coffee break
  • 16:20--17:10: Denis Perrin (Grenoble): A 2D case for authenticism
  • 17:10--18:00: Andre Sant'Anna (Geneva): Is there a debate about the accuracy conditions of episodic memory?

Wednesday, Nov. 20:

  • 09:30--10:20: Jordi Fernandez (Adelaide): Memory indexicals
  • 10:20--10:50: Coffee break
  • 10:50--11:40: Christopher McCarroll (Taipei, virtual): Authentic observer memory: Against alethism about remembering from the outside
  • 11:40--12:30: Markus Werning (Bochum): Remembering without (representational) memory: How categoricity and compositionality are regained from non-representational minimal traces in remembering
  • 12:30--14:00: Lunch break
  • 14:00--17:00: Informal discussion
  • 17:00--  . . .  : Informal get-together