a preliMinary case for aMnesic selVes: toWard a clinical Moral psychology

作者: Carl F. Craver

DOI: 10.1521/SOCO.2012.30.4.449

关键词: Cognitive psychologyAmnesiaPsychologyMoral psychologyTask (project management)Episodic memoryDemotionCognition

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.

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