This virtual colloquium series focuses on topics in the philosophy of memory and related philosophical areas, but reaches out also to philosophically interested researchers in the cognitive sciences.

Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium 2024

Please join the meetings on Zoom with the details below. Registration is not necessary.

• link: https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/92229286091?pwd=aGpnKzBSRm5GdTRNdHQ1cEFhREx3Zz09
• meeting ID: 922 2928 6091
• password: 864095

Speakers

Andy Hamilton
(Durham University)
Title: MEMORY-REPORTS AND DREAM-NARRATIVES: Why Dreams Aren’t Events In Sleep
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 16 April 2024

Abstract: Dreaming is a strangely neglected topic in philosophy, despite the use to which Cartesian sceptics have put it. This paper compares dream-narratives with memory-reports, arguing against the Analytic and popular consensus that the former are not memory-reports – there are vital differences as well as similarities. As Wittgenstein recognised, dream-narratives have authority – memory-reports, in contrast, are merely reliable. As in his account of pain, Wittgenstein rejects both Cartesianism and behaviourism: “Does this mean that it is nonsense ever to raise the question whether dreams really take place during sleep, or are a memory phenomenon of the awakened? It will turn on the use of the question.” In this discussion, I am indebted to the work of Roger Squires (1940-2021).

Ali Boyle
(London School of Economics)
Title TBA
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 30 April 2024

Shin Sakuragi
(Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Title TBA
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 14 May 2024

Katsunori Miyahara
(Hokkaido University)
Title TBA
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 04 June 2024

Julia Langkau
(Université de Genève)
Title TBA
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 18 June 2024

Cameron Buckner
(University of Houston)
Title TBA
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 09 July 2024

Daniel D. Hutto
(University of Wollongong)
Title TBA
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)/18:15-19:45 Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+08:00), 16 July 2024

The full details can be found on the workshop webpage.

The colloquium is organized by the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at Université Grenoble Alpes (Kourken Michaelian and Nikola Andonovski), the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Markus Werning and Sofiia Rappe), and the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll).