Memory Beliefs: A Psychological and Justificatory Account
摘要
Memory beliefs are both deeply important to, and play an indispensable role within, the lives of most epistemic subjects. Nearly all significant beliefs held by human epistemic subjects involve the faculty of memory and can be accurately described as memory beliefs. This paper begins by offering a psychological description of the memory belief forming process. This description explores four general cases whereby an epistemic subject comes to form a memory belief after a memory experience. Within this psychological description a distinction between standard and recalled memory beliefs is offered and explored. Proceeding the psychological description of the memory belief forming process an account offering the necessary and sufficient conditions for the epistemic justification of standard memory beliefs is defended. This account draws upon both internalist and externalist accounts of epistemic justification and seeks to offer a plausible account of how the memory beliefs of epistemic subjects may be epistemically justified in a fashion that is sensitive to over-intellectualization objections.