Philosophy and Memory Traces:
Descartes to Connectionism

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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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