John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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This page is under construction! These are just some of the resources which have been most useful to me.
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History of Theories of Memory
Aristotle, On Memory and Reminiscence, trans. J.I. Beare. Full text.
Aristotle, On Memory, in The Complete Works of Aristotle vol.1 (Princeton UP, 1984)
Richard Sorabji, Aristotle on Memory (London: Duckworth, 1972)
John Locke, 'Of Retention', in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II chapter X,
    P.H. Nidditch (ed) (Oxford UP, 1978)
Jeffrey Andrew Barash, 'The Sources of Memory', Journal of the History of Ideas (1997), 707-717.
    Disappointing critical survey of "the presuppositions concerning memory in the Western
    philosophical tradition". Covers Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Leibniz, Hegel, Bergson.
Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory (Cambridge U.P., 1990) [medieval arts of memory]
Janet Coleman, Ancient and Medieval Memories (Cambridge U.P., 1992)
Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (New York: Random House, 1965), ch 5 (also ch.4)
D.J. Herrman & R. Chaffin (eds.), Memory in Historical Perspective (Springer-Verlag, 1988)
Richard Joyce, 'Cartesian Memory', Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1997), 375-393
David Farrell Krell, Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: on the verge (Bloomington:
    Indiana U.P., 1990), chapters 1-3.
J.J. MacIntosh, "Perception and Imagination in Descartes, Boyle, and Hooke", Canadian Journal
    of Philosophy 13 (1983), 327-352
J.C. Marshall & D.M. Fryer, "Speak, Memory! An introduction to some historical studies of
    remembering and forgetting", in M.M. Gruneberg & P. Morris (eds.), Aspects of
    Memory (London: Methuen, 1978), pp.1-25
J. Morris, "Pattern Recognition in Descartes' Automata", Isis 60 (1969), 451-460
Laura Otis, Organic Memory: history and the body (Nebraska UP, 1994)
Paolo Rossi, Logic and the Art of Memory trans. S. Clucas (Athlone Press, 2001)
G.S. Rousseau (ed.), The Languages of Psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment Thought
    (Berkeley: California U.P., 1990)
Jocelyn Penny Small, Wax Tablets of the Mind (Routledge, 1999)
John Sutton, Philosophy and Memory Traces (Cambridge UP, 1998), chapters 1-14.
John Sutton, 'The Body and the Brain', in Gaukroger, Schuster, and Sutton (eds.), Descartes'
    Natural Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 697-722.
John Sutton, 'Body, Mind, and Order: local memory and the control of mental representations in
    medieval and Renaissance sciences of self', in G.Freeland & A. Corones (eds.), 1543 And
    All That: word and image in the proto-scientific revolution (Kluwer, 2000), 117-150
Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (London, 1966)
John P. Wright, "Hysteria and Mechanical Man", Journal of the History of Ideas 41 (1980), 233-247

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