The impure phenomenology of episodic memory
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pEpisodic memory has a distinctive phenomenology: it involves “mentally reliving” a past event. It has been suggested that characterising episodic memory in terms of this phenomenology makes it impossible to test for in animals, because “purely phenomenological features” cannot be detected in animal behaviour. Against this, I argue that episodic memory's phenomenological features are jats:italicimpure</jats:italic>, having both subjective and objective aspects, and so can be behaviourally detected. Insisting on a phenomenological characterisation of episodic memory consequently does nothing to damage the prospects for detecting it in nonhuman animals.</jats:p>
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animal behaviour, animal cognition, episodic memory, experience, phenomenology
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Mind and Language
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0268-1064
1468-0017
1468-0017
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35
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Wiley
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Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge