John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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See also especially Philosophy of Memory
Recovered Memory and False Memory
Social and Collective Memory

Memory, Emotion, and the Philosophy of Personal Identity
Annette Baier, "Mixing Memory and Desire", in her Postures of the Mind (Minnesota U.P.,
    1985), 8-21
David Cockburn, Other Times: philosophical perspectives on past, present, and future
    (Cambridge UP, 1997)
Arthur W. Collins, 'Personal Identity and the Coherence of Q-Memory', Philosophical Quarterly
    47 (1997), 73-80.
Jonathan Glover, I: the philosophy and psychology of personal identity (Penguin, 1988)
Genevieve Lloyd, Being in Time: selves and narrators in philosophy and literature (Routledge, 1993)
E.J. Lowe, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge UP, 1999), pp.264-287
Marya Schechtman (1994) 'The truth about memory', Philosophical Psychology 7: 3-18.
J.A. Singer & P. Salovy, The Remembered Self: emotion and memory in personality (Free
    Press, 1993)
Marc Slors, 'Personal Identity, Memory, and Circularity: an alternative for Q-memory', Journal of
    Philosophy 98 (2001), 186-214
Kathy Wilkes, Real People: personal identity without thought experiments (Oxford:
    Clarendon, 1988), especially material on amnesia and fugue states
Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford, 1984), part 2
Richard Wollheim, The Thread of Life (Cambridge UP, 1984)

Autobiography, Identity, Fiction, Memory Loss
Richard Coe, When the Grass was Taller: autobiography and the experience of childhood (Yale UP, 1984)
Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am, Again (Granta Books, 1998)
P. Lejeune, 'Autobiography, Identity, and the Fictions of Memory', in D. Schacter & E. Scarry
    (eds), Memory, Brain, and Belief. Harvard University Press, 2000.
S. Bok, 'Autobiography as Moral Battleground', in D. Schacter & E. Scarry (eds), Memory,
    Brain, and Belief. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Esther Salaman, A Collection of Moments: a study of involuntary memory (St Martins Press, 1972)
Mary Warnock, Imagination and Time (Faber, 1994). Chapter 6 on personal identity, chapter 7
    on autobiography.
Mary Warnock, Memory (Faber, 1987)
Alain de Botton, Kiss and Tell (Picador, 1995)
Ronald Fraser, In Search of a Past (Verso, 1984)
Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue (Vintage, 1994)
Alice Kaplan, French Lessons (Chicago UP, 1993)
Georges Perec, W or The Memory of Childhood (Collins Harvill, 1988)
Louis MacNeice, The Strings Are False: an unfinished autobiography (Faber, 1965)
Richard Rayner, The Blue Suit (Picador, 1995)
Lauren Slater, Spasm: a memoir with lies (Methuen, 2000)

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