Philosophy and Memory Traces:
Descartes to
Connectionism
Citations and
Discussions
John Sutton
Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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Ph.D Theses
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Citations & Print Discussions
1998 (3)
Stephen Gaukroger, 'Introduction' to Descartes: The World and other
writings (Cambridge UP, 1998), p. xxv on memory.
Andy Hamilton, 'False Memory Syndrome and the
Authority of Personal Memory-Claims: A Philosophical
Perspective', Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 5
(1998)
Seamus Perry, in Emma Mason et al, 'The Nineteenth
Century: the romantic period',
The Year's Work in English Studies 79, 1998, 443-545
'John Sutton ...
fruitfully uses (in passing) Coleridge's resistance to Hartley as a way
of reflecting upon contemporary
issues in the
philosophy of mind' (p.490)
1999 (1)
Marion Joan Francoz, 'Habit as Memory Incarnate', College
English 62, September 1999, 11-29
2000 (8)
Peter Anstey, The
Philosophy of Robert Boyle (Routledge, 2000), p.82.
Daniel Hutto, Beyond
Physicalism (John Benjamins, 2000)
E.J. Lowe, An Introduction to the Philosophy of
Mind (CUP, 2000), p.283
Raymond Martin and John Barresi, Naturalization
of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Birth of
Modern Psychology (Routledge, 2000)
Monica Meijsing, 'Self-Consciousness and the Body', Journal
of Consciousness Studies 7 (2000), 34-52.
Peter G. Mewett, 'History
in the Making and the Making of History: stories and the social
construction of a sport', Sporting Traditions 17
(2000), 1-17
Roger Smith, 'Intellectual History and Modern Brain
Science', Intellectual History 6/7 (winter 2000), 81-92
Extract (p.82): Great intellectual
figures have emblematic rather than historical status in modern
science. Brain scientists make Descartes
answer for a lot, and they
hold up Cartesian dualism as the source of what is supposedly wrong in
ordinary people's understanding.
Scientists do not usually
think it worthwhile to understand either the historical, and especially
theological, culture in which
Descartes lived or the
modern personal, legal, social, and moral settings in which dualistic
categories play a part. Even a book as
sophisticated in its
understanding of Descartes scholarship as John Sutton's Philosophy
and Memory Traces: Descartes to
connectionism (Cambridge
University Press, 1998) ultimately uses Descartes for rhetorical effect
in a debate among modern
scientists about the nature
of memory (note - see below). It is memory, as a natural-scientific
category, not Descartes as a historical
category, that is the
subject of the book.
(Smith's note: This is of course entirely legitimate if the purposes of
argument are made clear, as they are in Sutton's book. But
the rhetorical purposes of
modern science often tempt writers to claim to know the 'real' beliefs
of historical figures, so that the
claimed 'reality' supports a
modern stance.)
(Compare
also these extracts
from Smith's review of the book in Medical History.)
John Yolton, Realism
and Appearances (CUP, 2000), p.39 and p.107
2001
(6)
Brien Brothman, 'The
Past that Archives Keep: memory, history, and the preservation of
archival records', Archivaria 51
Alan Collins, 'The Psychology of Memory', in G.C.
Bunn, A.D. Lovie and G.D. Richards (eds), Psychology in Britain :
historical essays and personal
reflections (Leicester: British Psychological Society),
150-168, note 2 p.168 on concept of memory trace.
Helen Hattab, 'Descartes'
Body-Machine', Folger Institute seminar Experience
and Experiment in Early Modern Europe
D. George Joseph, 'The Decade of the
Brain: a bibliography of the history of the neurosciences, 1990-2000', Journal
of the History
of the Neurosciences10 (2001),
p.120.
Michael Losonsky, Enlightenment and
action from
Descartes to Kant (Cambridge U.P., 2001), p.9 on inner and
outer thinking,
p.40 on distributed memory in
Descartes.
Alan Richardson, British Romanticism and the
Science of Mind (Cambridge U.P., 2001), p.xv on historical
cognitive
science, and the 'virtues and pleasures of superficially silly old
theories'; n.25, p.189 on David Hartley.
2002 (19)
Jane Addams, The Long Road of Woman's
Memory (Illinois U.P., 2002), p.xxxii.
Richard Allen, 'David Hartley',
in the online Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002).
Keith Ansell-Pearson, Philosophy and the
Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life (Routledge,
2002), p.225.
Lambert Bezzola, Imagining the Unimaginable:
The Poetics of Early Modern Astronomy (Rodopi,
2002), p.123, p.181.
Stephen Bottomore, 'Smith versus Melbourne-Cooper: an end to the
dispute', Film History 14, 57-73
on reconstructive models
of memory and their implications for
oral history
Greg Clingham, Johnson,
Writing, and Memory (Cambridge U.P., 2002)
Barbara L. Craig, 'Selected Themes in the Literature
on Memory and their Pertinence to Archives', The American Archivist 65
(2002), 276-289, p.282.
Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes'
System of Natural
Philosophy (Cambridge U.P., 2002), p.205 on implicit memory.
Stephen Gaukroger, 'Rene Descartes', in the Encyclopedia
of Cognitive Science (Macmillan, 2002), pp.947-950.
Jeremiah Hackett and colleagues, 'Philosophical
and Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research: from laboratory to society',
University of South Carolina, note 37
on the history of how science goes public.
Peter Harrison, 'Original Sin
and the Problem of
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Journal of the History of Ideas
63
(2002), on Malebranche.
J.J. MacIntosh, 'Robert Boyle', in
the online Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002).
Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers
of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton
U.P., 2002)
John Paley, 'Benner's remnants: culture, tradition
and everyday understanding', Journal of Advanced Nursing 38 (2002),
566-572
(and also Paley, 'The
Cartesian melodrama in nursing', Nursing Philosophy 3 (2002),
189-192)
Timothy J. Reiss, 'Denying Body, Making Self?
Histories and Identities', chapter 5 in his book Against Autonomy:
global dialectics of
cultural exchange (Stanford U.P., 2002), 184-218, 457-462. A
radically rewritten version of a paper
on which I commented in
chapter 2 of Philosophy and Memory Traces, this chapter
combines a remarkable meditation
on cross-cultural bodily
experience with a wonderfully detailed reading of Descartes' 'three
rather different ideas of the
physiology of ... memory'.
Reiss builds on some of my claims, also disputing common views of
Descartes as 'the
demonic source of modern
alienation', and takes issue, in lucid analysis, of others. I'll put up
some more responses
to his comments when I get a
chance.
Katherine Rowe, 'Memory and Revision in Chapman's Bussy Plays', Renaissance Drama 31 (2002),
125-152, pp.130, 146-150
Katherine Rowe, 'Remember
Me: technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet' (2002),
reprinted in Richard Burt, Lynda
E. Boose
(eds), Shakespeare, the Movie II:
Popularizing the Plays on Film, Tv, Video, and DVD (Routledge,
2003), 37-55
Peter
Slezak, 'The Tripartite Model of Representation', Philosophical
Psychology 15 (2002), 239-270
Valerie Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in
Early
Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2002), p.83 on continuous reciprocal
causation among passions,
humours,
spirits, and temperaments
2003 (14)
Sue
Campbell, Relational Remembering: rethinking the memory wars (Rowman
& Littlefield, 2003). Important and challenging.
To quote the blurb:
'The harmful stereotypes of women's passivity and instability
that have repopulated discussions of abuse have led
many theorists to regard the social dimensions of remembering
only negatively, as a threat or contaminant to memory
integrity. Tracing the impact of the memory wars on science and
culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous
philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about
memory that is their legacy. Campbell uses the false
memory debates to defend a feminist reconceptualization of
personal memory as relational, social, and subject to politics.'
Extensive discussions of the
work of Janice Haaken, Ian Hacking, Elizabeth Loftus, et al. Discussion
of my book on pp.1-2, 19, 79, 85,
95, 120-125, and 179. Campbell
complains rightly that the role of the social in my picture is only as
an external influence on the reception
of theories of memory; that the
celebration of distortion and confusion in reconstructive remembering
renders memory mundane and
neutralizes the reality of genuine
personal trauma; and that the opposition between archival and
reconstructive models is unrealistic,
and paints 'archival' models in
particular in unnecessarily rigid terms. Recommended.
M.L. Cappuccio, 'Traces of a Computational Mind', Revue de Synthese 5, 43-59
Desmond Clarke, Descartes'
Theory of Mind (Oxford U.P., 2003), p.48
Thomas Dixon, From Passions to Emotions: the
creation of a secular psychological category (Cambridge U.P.,
2003), p.119
(on my ch.14, on Reid's attack on
Priestley)
Jean-Claude Dupont, 'Modeles
biologiques de la memoire: elements d'epistemologie et d'histoire',
M-C Maurel & P.A. Miquel (eds),
Nouveaux debats sur le
vivant, Paris 2003.
Mary Floyd-Wilson, English Ethnicity and Race in
Early
Modern Drama (Cambridge UP, 2003)
Maria Frasca-Spada, 'Belief and Animal Spirits in
Hume's Treatise', Eighteenth-Century Thought 1 (2003)
Andy Hamilton, '"Scottish Commonsense" about Memory:
a defence of Thomas Reid's direct knowledge account',
Australasian Journal of
Philosophy 81 (2003), 229-245: on p.241 Hamilton disagrees with my
conclusion about Reid's views,
though he does not
deal with the details of my account. I look forward to seeing
Hamilton's forthcoming book on memory.
Gary Hatfield, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to
Descartes and the Meditations (Routledge, 2003), p.314 on
Descartes' psychology.
Barbara Misztal, Theories of Social Remembering (Open
University Press, 2003), p.3.
Gail Kern Paster, 'The Humor of it: Bodies, Fluids,
and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy', in Richard Dutton &
Jean E. Howard
(eds), A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: the
comedies (Blackwell, 2003), pp.47-66, p.64 on animal spirits,
the body, and the cosmos.
Timothy J. Reiss, Mirages of the Selfe: patterns of
personhood in ancient and early modern Europe (Stanford U.P.,
2003), p.235 on the
public materiality of being human
in early modern medicine and philosophy. Did Descartes still feel
'something of this sensibility', or was
he 'embedded in it'?
Alan Richardson and Francis F. Steen, 'Reframing the
Adjustment', Poetics Today 24 (2003), 151-9 (A response to an
article by Adler and
Gross attacking the idea of a cognitive
literary criticism).
Susan M. Stabile, Memory's
Daughters: the material culture of remembrance in eighteenth-century
America (Cornell UP, 2004), p.242
2004 (15)
Belinda Barnet, 'Technical
Machines
and Evolution', CTHEORY: an international journal of theory,
technology,
and culture, March 2004,
reprinted in Arthur &
Marilouise Kroker (eds), Life in the
Wires: the CTheory reader (New World Perspective Books, 2004)
Sue Campbell, 'Models of Mind and Memory
Activities',
in Peggy DesAutels & Margaret Urban Walker (eds), Moral
Psychology:
feminist
ethics and social theory
(Rowman
& Littlefield, 2004), 119-137
Timo Kaitaro, 'Brain-Mind Identities in Dualism and
Materialism: a historical perspective', Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science C 35
(2004), 627-645
Robert L.
Martensen, The Brain Takes Shape: an
early history (Oxford U.P., 2004): p.52/ p.71 on Descartes.
Peter J. McCusker, Conversation: Striving, Surviving, and
Thriving (iUniverse Books, 2004), p.22 on
exograms
John C. Murray, 'Redefining the Self:
tracing identity in natural, cultural, and psychological landscapes in
Swift's Gulliver's Travels',
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, note 2 p.31.
Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe,
& Mary Floyd-Wilson (eds), Reading the Early Modern Passions:
essays in the cultural history of
emotion (Pennsylvania U.P., 2004):
references in Paster, Rowe, Floyd-Wilson, 'Introduction', pp.15-16;
Rowe, 'Humoral Knowledge and
Liberal Cognition in Davenant's Macbeth',
pp.174-5; and in Paster's wonderful essay
'Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Early Modern
Cosmology: reading
Shakespeare's psychological materialism beyond the species barrier'
, p.120 and p.128.
Gail Kern Paster, Humoring
the Body: emotions and the Shakespearean stage (Chicago UP,
2004), pp.19-20, 41, 134, 156, 243.
Alan Richardson, 'Studies in Literature and
Cognition: a field map', in Richardson & Spolsky (eds), The Work of Fiction: cognition, culture,
and complexity (Ashgate, 2004),
pp.1-30, at p.29.
Douglas Trevor, The Poetics of Melancholy in
Early Modern England (Cambridge U.P.,
2004), p.20 on animal spirits.
José van Dijck, 'Memory Matters in the
Digital Age', Configurations 12 (2004),
349-373
Richard Yeo, 'John Locke's "New Method" of
Commonplacing: managing memory and information', Eighteenth-Century Thought 2 (2004),
1-38.
Carl Zimmer, Soul
Made Flesh: the discovery of the brain and how it changed the world (Free
Press/ Simon & Schuster), p.197/p.318 on
Anne Conway and animal spirits.
2005 (17)
Noga Arikha, 'Deafness, Ideas, and the Language of
Thought in the Late 1600s', British
Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2005),
233-262, p.251 on reactions to
Cartesianism.
Diana Trevino Benet, 'Milton's Toad, or Satan's
Dream', Milton Studies 45 (2005),
38-52, pp. 41, 48, 51 on animal spirits in Milton.
Gerald L. Clore and Simone Schnall, 'The Influence
of Affect on Attitude', in Dolores Albarracin et al (eds), The Handbook of Attitudes
(Erlbaum/ Routledge, 2005),
437-488, p. 460 on associationism.
Christian J. Emden, Nietzsche on Consciousness, Language, and
the Body (University of Illinois Press, 2005), p.199 n.59
Evelyne Ender, Architexts
of Memory: literature, science, and autobiography (Michigan
U.P., 2005), p.251, p.267.
Mary Floyd-Wilson et al, 'Shakespeare
and Embodiment: an e-conversation', Literature Compass 2, 1-13, p.4
James A. Harris, Of
Liberty and Necessity: the free will debate in 18th-century British
philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press), p.156 on Hartley
Gary Hatfield, 'The History of Philosophy as
Philosophy', in Analytic Philosophy and
History of Philosophy, ed. by Tom Sorell and
G. A. J. Rogers
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 82–128, p.110 note 50 on
Descartes.
Suzanne Keene, Fragments
of the World: uses of museum collections (Butterworth-Heinemann,
2005), p.100 n.10.
Rhodri Lewis, 'The Best Mnemonicall Expedient: John
Beale's Art of Memory and its uses', The
Seventeenth Century 20 (2005), 113-144
J.J. Macintosh, Boyle
on Atheism (Toronto UP, 2005)
Interview
with Rupert Murray, director of Unknown
White Male, an intriguing and provocative documentary about
amnesia. He found my book
'heavy going', for which I'm sorry!
Katherine Rowe, 'Minds in Company: Shakespearean
Tragic Emotions', in R. Dutton & J.E. Howard (eds.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Works:
the tragedies (Blackwell,
2005), 47-72, p.51
Shira Segal, 'From the Private to
the Public:
photography, film, and the transmission of cultural memory in Hollis
Frampton's (nostalgia)',
Text,
Practice, Performance 6, 34-54
Christine Stevenson, 'Robert Hooke,
Monuments, and
Memory', Art History 28, 43-74,
p.48 (on my account of the need for models of both
cognitive and collective
memory after the Restoration which would 'keep the past in place'); n.4
p.68 on Hooke on memory
and light; n.71 p.71 on Hooke's
localist model of memory.
Garrett Sullivan, Memory
and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama, Cambridge U.P.,
pp.142,147.
Dylan Trigg, 'Memories Unbound: on
the fragmentation of space and identity', Dept of Philosophy,
University of Sussex, p.9 on traces.
Lina Perkins Wilder, 'Toward a Shakespearean "Memory
Theater"', Shakespeare Quarterly 56,
156-175, pp.159-160 on memory, order, and the brain.
2006 (19)
Linda
M. Austin, 'Self against Childhood:
the contributions of Alice Meynell to a psycho-physiology of memory', Victorian Literature
and Culture 34 (2006), note 8
on Locke.
Caroline Bicks, 'Planned Parenthood: minding the
quick woman in All's Well', Modern
Philology 103 (2006), 299-331
Gabor Boros, 'Seventeenth-Century Theories of
Emotion and their Contemporary Relevance', European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 2 (2006),
125-142, p.131.
Deborah J. Brown, Descartes
and the Passionate Mind (Cambridge University Press, 2006),
pp.23, 200.
Sue Campbell, 'Our Faithfulness to the Past:
reconstructing memory value', Philosophical
Psychology 19 (2006), 361-380
Shannon Collis, artist's statement
Jean Feerick, '"Divided in Soyle": plantation and
degeneracy in The Tempest and
The Sea Voyage', Renaissance Drama 35
(2006), 27-54, p.33 on embodiment
and environment in early modern
humoralism.
Will Fisher, Materializing
Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Cambridge
UP, 2006), p.15 on animal spirits
Mary Floyd-Wilson, 'English Epicures and Scottish
Witches', Shakespeare Quarterly 57
(2), 2006, 131-161, especially p.139 on animal spirits.
Susan James, 'The Passions and the Good Life', in The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern
Philosophy (CUP, 2006), p.218
Anita Kasabova, 'Memory
traces in 19th-century philosophy of psychology',
International workshop on
phylogenetic
memory, Vienna, Sept 2006.
Edward F. Kelly et al, Irreducible Mind: toward a psychology for
the 21st century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), in chapter 4, Alan Gauld on
'Memory',
p.242, 250, 260; and in chapter
7, Edward F. Kelly & Michael Grosso on 'Genius' at pp.455-6 where
the authors seek to defend Coleridge's anti-associationist
account of memory against my
Hartleian critique (ch.14), but do so very oddly by saying firstly that
'Coleridge knew Hartley personally' (odd because
Hartley died 15 years before
Coleridge was born), and then bluntly dismissing my account of
distributed representation with the complaint that such a
notion just can't explain either
memory or 'creative imagination'. I just wish they'd have said in what way my account fails, and anything
at all to respond to
my range of detailed criticisms
of Coleridge ... then a productive debate could begin.
Douglas H. Knight, The
Eschatological Economy (Eerdmans, 2006), p.45 with an odd claim that
animal spirits are algorithms
Jackie Leach Scully, Rouven Porz, Christoph
Rehmann-Sutter, 'Time and
Genetic Test Decisions: using time to preserve moral space', p.2
on constructivism in memory theory.
Anna Munster, Materializing
New Media: embodiment in information aesthetics (Dartmouth
College Press, 2006), p.196 n.31
Jon Opie, 'The next step, or a misstep?', review of
Mike Wheeler, Reconstructing the
Cognitive World, Trends in Cognitive Science 10 (2006), 144-5
Richard Strier, Carla Mazzio, 'Two
Responses to "Shakespeare and Embodiment"', Literature Compass 3, 15-31
Julian Yates, 'Accidental Shakespeare', Shakespeare Studies (2006), p.118.
Julian Yates, 'What are "Things" Saying in
Renaissance Studies?', Literature
Compass 3
Lisa Zunshine, Why
We Read Fiction: theory of mind and the novel (Ohio State
U.P.), p.165 on cognition and culture.
2007 (26)
Elisabeth Arosio, Elisabetta Arosio, Michel Malherbe, Philosophie française et
philosophie écossaise (Paris: Vrin, 2007), p.216.
David
Bloch, Aristotle on Memory and
Recollection (Brill, 2007)
Thiemo
Breyer, On the Topology of Cultural
Memory:
different modalities of inscription and transmission (Koningshausen
& Neumann, 2007), p.104
Yuval Dolev, Time
and Realism: metaphysical and
antimetaphysical perspectives (MIT Press, 2007)
Christina Fang & Daniel Leventhal, The
Near-Term Liability of Exploitation: exploration and exploitation
in multi-stage problems.
Mary Floyd-Wilson & Garrett A. Sullivan,
'Introduction: inhabiting the body, inhabiting the world', in
Floyd-Wilson & Sullivan (eds), Environment
and Embodiment in Early Modern England (Palgrave,
2007), pp.7,12-13.
Robert B. Glassman and
Hugh W. Buckingham, 'David Hartley's Neural Vibrations and
Psychological Associations', in H. Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith,
and S. Finger (eds), Brain, Mind, and Medicine: neuroscience in
the eighteenth
century (Springer,
2007), 177-190.
M.P. Gonzalez & J. Martin, 'Gestion
de la innovacion creativa', Creatividad
y Sociedad 10 (March 2007), p.115 on Descartes
Peter Harrison, The
Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science, Cambridge UP 2007
Gary Hatfield, 'The Passions of the Soul and
Descartes' machine physiology', Studies
in History and Philosophy of Science 38, 1-35
Gary Hatfield, 'Did Descartes have a Jamesian theory
of the Emotions?', Philosophical
Psychology 20 (2007), 413-440
Sara Heinamaa, Vili Lahteenmaki, & Pauliina
Remes (eds), Consciousness: from
perception to reflection in the history of philosophy (Springer,
2007)
David Hillman, Shakespeare's
Entrails: belief,
scepticism, and the interior of the body (Palgrave Macmillan), p.7 on embodiment.
Timo Kaitaro, 'Technological
Metaphors and the
Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism and
Dualist Mechanism',
in H. Whitaker,
C.U.M. Smith, and S. Finger (eds), Brain,
Mind, and Medicine: neuroscience in
the eighteenth
century (Springer,
2007), pp.335-344.
Pamela Lyon and Fred Keijzer, 'The
Human Stain', in Brendan Wallace et al (eds), The Mind, The Body, and the World:
psychology after cognitivism?
(Imprint Academic, 2007), pp.
153, 164.
Ricardo Munez Martin, 'Apuntes
para una traductologia cognitiva' (Cognitive Translatology and
Empirical Translatology), in Gerd Wotjak,
Quo Vadis
Translatologie? (Berlin: Francke & Timme), pp. 267-278
K. Michaelian, 'Generative
Memory', University of Massachusetts, pp.8, 25, 26
Michael Rossington, 'Enlightenment and
Romantic Memory: introduction', in M. Rossington & A. Whitehead
(eds.), Theories of Memory: a reader
(Johns
Hopkins UP, 2007), p.74.
Katherine Rowe, 'Inconstancy: changeable affections
in Stuart dramas of contract', in Floyd-Wilson &
Sullivan (eds), Environment and
Embodiment in Early Modern
England (Palgrave, 2007), pp.206-7.
Peter Slezak, 'Linguistic
Explanation and "Psychological Reality"'
C.U.M. Smith, 'Brain and
Mind in the Long 18th Century', in H. Whitaker, C.U.M.
Smith, and S. Finger (eds), Brain,
Mind, and Medicine: neuroscience
in
the eighteenth
century (Springer,
2007), pp. 15-28.
Barbara Maria Stafford, Echo Objects: the cognitive work of images
(Chicago UP, 2007), eg p.15, p.143
José van Dijck, Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (Stanford
UP, 2007), pp.29-30, p.38.
Markus Wild, Die Anthropologische
Differenz: Der Geist Der Tiere in
Der Fruhen Neuzeit Bei Montaigne, Descartes und Hume.
Walter
de Gruyter, 2007, pp.141, 148, 166, 204.
Julian Yates, 'Humanist Habitats; or, "eating
well"
with Thomas More's Utopia', in
Floyd-Wilson & Sullivan (eds), Environment and
Embodiment in Early Modern
England (Palgrave, 2007), p.101.
Richard Yeo, 'Before Memex: Robert
Hooke, John
Locke, and Vannevar Bush on external memory', Science in Context 20 (2007), 21-47
2008 (4)
Sven Bernecker, The
Metaphysics of Memory (Springer, 2008), p.61.
Mary Carruthers, The
Book of Memory: a study of memory in medieval culture (2nd edition), Cambridge
UP 2008, n.32 p.389 on spirits (also p.380, 490)
Anthony DiMatteo, 'Shakespeare: philosopher,
scientist, ecologist', College
Literature (35/2), 2008, 176-183, at p.181 on 'linking humoral
psychology to current ecological
thinking that studies the interface of minds, machines, and
environments and thus works against the body/mind
or subject/object divide'.
Ross Poole, 'Memory, Responsibility, and Identity', Social Research 75 (1), 2008,
263-286, p.266 on Locke.
Ph.D
and Masters Theses
There are extensive discussions, criticisms, and
uses of the book in:
Belinda
Barnet, 'Storming the interface: space,
time and the history of hypertext', Ph.D thesis, supervisor
Andrew Murphie, Dept of Media, University of New South Wales.
Carol
Collier, 'From Naturalism to
Mechanism: Descartes' Mechanistic Physiology', Ph.D thesis,
advisor
Daniele Letocha, Dept of Philosophy, University of Toronto, submitted
November 2000.
And citations in:
Noga Arikha, 'Adam's
Spectacles: nature, mind, and body in the age of mechanism', Ph.D
thesis, Warburg Institute, London, 2001,
supervisor Jill Kraye, p. 27: " John Sutton has provided a sophisticated
example of how to combine the historical exegesis of
philosophical
texts on the nature of memory, whether well known or relatively
‘obscure’, with an explicit
effort to relate them
conceptually to models of mind
discussed today, especially connectionism.His
approach is similar, if only in its foundations,
to the one I have
adopted,
although he has dared to analyse an historical model of mind in terms
of a
contemporary one in much
more explicit terms than I do."
Also cited in
footnotes passim in this
intriguing work.
Lisa Gye, 'Halflives: a mystory', Masters thesis at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Animation and
Interactive Multimedia Centre
Lisa Gye, bibliography to 'Picture This: the impact of digital and
mobile imaging practices on the collection and dissemination of family
photographs', PhD thesis,
Swinburne University of Technology
Katerina Elam, Emotions as a
Mode of Understanding, Uppsala University, 2001, p.80 on the
elusiveness of memory
Anders Soderbach, Den tryckta
textens auktoritat, Uppsala University, 2004 , p.45 on
Robert Hooke
Debra Beattie, The
Wrong Crowd: an online documentary, Queensland University of
Technology Ph.D, 2005
Shin Sakuragi, thesis proposal: 'Remembering
that p', University of Florida, 2005
Reading Lists
University of Durham course Philosophy
of Mind, lectures 5-6 'Memory', early 2000s.
Prescott College, Arizona course Theories
of
Consciousness, bibliography., early 2000s.
University of Manchester course on Identity,
Science, and the New Technologies, week on humans and machines,
early 2000s.
University of Sydney Dept of Architecture
course Screen
Studies: Time, Memory, and Identity 2002-2004 (p.42)
University of New South Wales Media courses Prefiguring
Contemporary Media and Digital
Aesthetics, 2004 onwards
Graduiertenkolleg, Goethe-Universiteit Frankfurt, 'Zeiterfahrung
und Asthetische Wahrnehmung', p.16 section 2.3.2
University of Toronto course 2007-08 (E.D. Harvey), 'Early
Modern Minds'
Online Bibliographies and Discussion
Alan Richardson's Annotated
Bibliography on Literature, Cognition & the Brain says of the
book:
"This
pioneering study in "historical cognitive science" looks primarily at
seventeenth-century philosophical
and
scientific discourses in light of recent connectionist accounts of
memory, but includes a compelling
reading of
Coleridge's response to Hartley in the Biographia Literaria."
Experience
and Experiment in Early Modern Europe syllabus, Folger
Institute
NEH summer school, July 2001
KLI
Theory Lab of the Konrad Lorenz Institute
David Chalmers'
Contemporary
Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography includes the book in
the
Memory
section of the Philosophy
of
Psychology page.
The reference to the book in John C. Attig's John
Locke bibliography for 1998 advises "see
Ch. 7, “John Locke
and the neurophilosophy of self” (p. 157-176) and
Ch. 9, “Spirits, body, and self” (p. 189-213)".
C18-L
Selected Readings on the 18th century includes the book under
'Philosophy' in issue 59,
under
'Philosophy: Descartes' in issue 62,
and with a reference to the review
by Neil Manson, under 'Philosophy'
again in issue 68.
Benoit Melancon's 18th-century
bibliography at U Montreal
Resource
Books on Consciousness by Greg Nixon features the book under
the
headings 'evolutionary/
emergentist explanations', 'functionalism &
computer consciousness', & 'materialism'.
Francis Steen's CogWeb
Bibliography (a great resource especially on culture and cognition
links) cites the
book under 'Personal Identity Theory'.
Empty Memories:
Emma van Weringh and Elisabeth Mooy's library on trauma and
the culture of the mind
lists the book under 'cognitive science, evolution,
& philosophy'
John Schmidt's list of books
on memory quotes one review.
Swinburne University tiki
books on memory
'Philosophical and
Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research' from the Uni of Southern
Carolina has a
reference
relating to public science in the 17th & 21st centuries
Ethics
in Place select bibliography on architecture, memory, &
environmental poetics (by G.P. Caicco)
Bulletin
Cartesien XXIX (1998)
Andrew Murphie's media
and cultural studies links at UNSW (the book's listed under
'articles').
Here's a picture of the book featured on the modern
philosophy site index at Erratic Impact's philosophy
research base.
John Barresi cites the
book in a discussion of Descartes
on memory and time.
The
book mentioned on HISTNEUR
- neuroscience history forum.
There's a discussion of the book, drawing on Neil Manson's TLS review,
in the French Lacanian online journal
Ornicar
? digital number 81 (1999). In the section 'our
pica-pica' by 'Dick and Daisy' is the following:
- Daisy : "In the "Psychology for neurologists"
genre, the new approach to memory through the connectionist paradigm
insists.
Neil Manson, in the february
5 issue of the TLS, puts it that way. There are "two opposing models of
our ability to recollect our own
past experiences, thoughts,
actions and feelings. According to the first, static archive model,
memory is taken to require the
formation of distinct,
discrete representations of our experiences which are stored separately
in the brain. Recall of a past event
involves the recovery of a
representation which has lain unchanged in the archive of memory. ...
The alternative : the dynamic
reconstructive model.
Drawing on recent connectionist and parallel distributed processing
models of information processing, ...
memory can be viewed in
terms of the formation of a wide range of informational
"traces" distributed throughout regions of the brain.
On this view, recall of our
past experience is more akin to reconstruction and
invention than the recovery of some stored, static
record of our past ". "
- Dick : "This perspective in
neurology is akin to the Edelman/Modell approach (cf. "Ornicar ?
digital" n° 65). The orginality of the
book Manson
is reviewing, John Sutton's "Philosophy and memory traces, Descartes to
connectionism", is to "use the history of
psychological and
philosophical conceptions of memory and cognition ... In his
"Treatise on Man", Descartes maintained that a
great deal of our mental
life was underpinned by non localized patterns of "fleeting animal
spirits" passing through nerves and "pores"
in the brain. Descartes's
... model of brain activity and mental processing can be viewed as
formal ancestors of contemporary
parallel distributed
processing models of cognition and memory ". "
- Daisy : "Could we enrol the "fleeting animal
spirits" to account for the punctual subject that Lacan showed us in
Descartes?"
[And some citations of other stuff]
The Good Maus on Murakami and memory
Jung-In Kwon, 'Memory
Simulated', The Journal of Moving Image Studies 2 (2003/4)
Barbara Maria Stafford,
'Romantic Systematics and the Genealogy of Thought: The
Formal Roots of a Cognitive History of Images', Configurations 12 (2004), 315-348
Mike Leggett, 'Vocals',
Leonardo, July 2005
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