The narrative self, distributed memory, and evocative objects.
In this article, I outline various ways in which artifacts are interwoven with autobiographical memory systems and conceptualize what this implies for the self. I first sketch the narrative approach to the self, arguing that who we are as persons is essentially our (unfolding) life story, which, in...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 175; no. 8; pp. 1829 - 1850 |
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