The Semantics and Format of Episodic Representations

The rich, multidimensional representations by which we remember events in our personal past share key features with those by which we imagine future, counterfactual, or other situations. These include overlapping neural bases, shared construction operations, and perhaps continuities in representational format and semantic profile too.

This workshop addresses two broad sets of questions. The first concerns the semantics of these representations: what determines their subject matter; what does their accuracy consist in; what contributions are made by trace-indexes, gists, and schemas? The second concerns their format: are such representations built compositionally; do they have a syntax; what is the role of mental imagery; are there forms of remembering or imagining that do not employ such representations at all? Answers to both sets of questions bear on many other issues: the function(s) of a purported episodic system, or the effects of ageing and conditions such as depression.

The workshop aims to make progress on these questions by bringing together philosophers and psychologists working on memory, imagination, and mental representation.

LOCATION

All talks in SHHK Conference Room (05-57) at NTU Singapore.

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

Day 1 (Monday 11th January)

09:30–09:40. Welcome

09:40–10:40. Kourken Michaelian (Grenoble)

10:40–11:00. Tea/coffee break

11:00–12:00. Simon Brown (Ashoka)

12:00–13:00. James Openshaw (NTU)

13:00–14:30. Lunch

14:30–15:30. Johannes Mahr (York)

15:30–16:30. Megan Entwistle (Grenoble)

16:30–17:00. Tea/coffee break

17:00–18:00. Peter Langland-Hassan (Cincinnati)

19:00. Workshop dinner

Day 2 (Tuesday 12th January)

09:30–10:30. Kristina Liefke (Bochum)

10:30–11:00. Tea/coffee break

11:00–12:00. Lizhu Luo (NTU)

12:00–13:00. Denis Perrin (Grenoble)

13:00–14:30. Lunch

14:30–15:30. Andrea Nocerino (NTU)

15:30–16:30. André Sant’Anna (Yonsei)

16:30–17:00. Tea/coffee break

17:00–18:00. Robert Hopkins (Oxford)

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION

For details, future updates, and to register, please visit the website below.

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/the-semantics-and-format-of-episodic-representations

Attendance is free but registration is required by Monday 28th December.

ENQUIRIES

Contact James Openshaw ([email protected]).

ORGANISERS

James Openshaw (NTU) and Kourken Michaelian (Grenoble).

FUNDING

The workshop is funded by an NTU Start-Up Grant and also a Merlion Workshop grant held in conjunction with Kourken Michaelian (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Grenoble).