What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and "Kinding in Progress". Issue 1 (January 2022)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and "Kinding in Progress". Issue 1 (January 2022)
- Main Title:
- What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and "Kinding in Progress"
- Authors:
- Colaço, David
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This paper accounts for broad definitions of memory, which extend to paradigmatic memory phenomena, like episodic memory in humans, and phenomena in worms and sea snails. These definitions may seem too broad, suggesting that they extend to phenomena that don't count as memory or illustrate that memory is not a natural kind. However, these responses fail to consider a definition as a hypothesis . As opposed to construing definitions as expressing memory's properties, a definition as a hypothesis is the basis to test inferences about phenomena. A definition as a hypothesis is valuable when the "kinding" of phenomena is ongoing.
- Is Part Of:
- Philosophy of science. Volume 89:Issue 1(2022)
- Journal:
- Philosophy of science
- Issue:
- Volume 89:Issue 1(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 89, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 89
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0089-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 89
- Page End:
- 106
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01
- Subjects:
- Science -- Periodicals
Science -- Philosophy
Science
Science -- Philosophy
Philosophie des sciences
Epistemology
Periodicals
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PHILSCI/journal/index.html ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318248.html ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/psa.2021.14 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1539-767X
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