作者: Carl F. Craver
DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2012.30.4.449
关键词: Cognitive psychology 、 Amnesia 、 Psychology 、 Moral psychology 、 Task (project management) 、 Episodic memory 、 Demotion 、 Cognition
摘要: Does episodic memory make us who we are? Scholars from Aristotle to the present claim that is necessary for one be a self, person, or an agent. A consequence of necessity hypothesis (N) individuals with amnesia fail qualify as selves, persons, agents. This ethical demotion requires empirical justification. I show established dissociations in falsify many initially plausible formulations N. The task going forward formulate avoids falsification conclude no formulation succeeds. method clinical moral psychology affords incremental progress difficult showing how and agents are implemented cognitive mechanisms.