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simulation theory  

Definition

  • In philosophy, the theory that remembering consists of imagining an episode from our personal past (Michaelian, 2016).

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Entry terms

  • simulationism
  • simulationist approach

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Michaelian, K. (2016). Mental time travel: Episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past. The MIT Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Michaelian, K., Perrin, D., & Sant’Anna, A. (2020). Continuities and discontinuities between imagination and memory: The view from philosophy. In A. Abraham (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 293–310). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580298.019

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Perrin, D. (2021). Embodied episodic memory: A new case for causalism? Intellectica, 74, 229–252.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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  • Kourken Michaelian

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