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Semantics and Memory

Participating journal: Philosophical Studies

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue of Philosophical Studies entitled: Semantics and Memory.

DESCRIPTION: Over the last decade, philosophy of memory has established itself as an autonomous philosophical discipline that is concerned with the objects, phenomenology, epistemic status, and conditions of remembering. Given its thematic focus, philosophy of memory has so far largely ignored work from semantics and the philosophy of language. However, recent work on reference in memories from dreams, on self-referential memory contents, and on mnemic accuracy has shown the high relevance of semantic concepts (broadly construed) to issues in philosophy of memory. The above observations notwithstanding, philosophical exploration of the topics at the intersection of semantics and memory is still in its early stages. The purpose of this Special Issue is to unite researchers who have established their positions in the field through work on more traditional problems within the philosophy of memory, along with theorists focusing on issues of semantics, such as philosophers of language, linguists, etc.

Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to:

▪ What (kinds of entities) are the referents of a memory/what a memory 'is about'

▪What determines a memory’s reference? How is the reference relation established?

▪What kind of entity are the contents of mnemic representations? What are their properties? (e.g. truth-evaluability, context-dependence, indexicality, …)

▪What is the right concept of mnemic accuracy? What determines memory accuracy?

▪How (if at all) do episodic memory contents differ from the contents of other experiential attitudes (e.g. imagining, hallucinating, dreaming)?

▪Does the current state of scientific understanding of memory have any bearing on the traditional philosophical conception of acquaintance?

▪ What are the objects of episodic remembering and other experiential mental states?

▪ Can episodic(-like) remembering have generic or counterfactual objects?

▪ Is episodic remembering factive?

▪ Does remembering entail knowing?

▪ Is the semantics of the verb ‘remember’ continuous with the semantics of other experiential attitude verbs (e.g. ‘imagine’, ‘dream’, ‘hallucinate’, ‘see’)?

▪ Is semantic ascent a defensible approach to episodic remembering? Can linguistic considerations yield insight into the nature of remembering?

INVITED CONTRIBUTORS:

▪ Kyle Blumberg (University of Melbourne)

▪ Robert Hopkins (New York University)

▪ Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University)

▪ Jeff Speaks (University of Notre Dame)

DEADLINE: Please submit your paper by 15, December, 2025. Should you not be able to meet this deadline, please contact the Guest Editor (contact details below).

Online SUBMISSION: Please use the journal’s Online Manuscript Submission System (Editorial Manager), accessible through Editorial Manager®. Do note that paper submissions via email are not accepted.

Author Submission's GUIDELINES: Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts according to the journal’s standard Submission Guidelines

EDITORIAL PROCESS:

▪ When uploading your paper in Editorial Manager, please select “SI: SEMANTICS AND MEMORY” either in the drop-down menu “Article Type” or through SI selection in the Author’s Questionnaire

▪ Papers should not exceed a maximum of 10.000 words.

▪ All papers will undergo the journal’s standard review procedure (double-blind peer-review), according to the journal’s Peer Review Policy, Process and Guidance

▪ Reviewers will be selected according to the Peer Reviewer Selection

▪ This journal offers the option to publish Open Access. You are allowed to publish open access through Open Choice. Please explore the OA options available through your institution by referring to our list of OA Transformative Agreements.

▪ Once papers are accepted, they will be made available as Online articles publications until final publication into an issue and available on the Collections page.

CONTACT: For any questions, please directly contact the Guest Editor: Jakub Rudnicki, jmrudnicki@gmail.com

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Editors

  • Jakub Rudnicki

    Jakub Rudnicki is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at Université Grenoble Alpes, where he is involved in the 'Simulationist and Causalist Accounts of Reference in Remembering' project, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. He has authored several papers on the semantics of indexicality, topics in pragmatics, and the role of intentions in semantics. Currently, he is working on topics at the intersection of the philosophy of language and the philosophy of memory.

  • Kristina Liefke

    Kristina Liefke is assistant professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where she heads the research group Philosophy of Information and Communication. She is currently PI of the project ‘Episodic Memory Reports: Language-based evidence for experientiality, perspectivity, and generativity’, funded by the German Research Foundation. She has authored several articles on the semantics of experiential attitudes (esp. remembering, imagining) and two Cambridge Elements on natural language ontology. She is co-editor of a special issue of Topoi and of several conference volumes.

  • Kourken Michaelian

    Kourken Michaelian is a professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where he directs the Centre for Philosophy of Memory, and is currently PI on a project on reference in remembering funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. He is the author of Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past (MIT Press) and of numerous articles on memory. He has coedited eleven volumes, including books published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Springer and special issues of or topical collections in Synthese, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.

  • Denis Perrin

    Denis Perrin is a professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where he is the head of the Institut de Philosophie de Grenoble. He does his research at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory, where he is currently the main collaborator on a project on reference in remembering funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and where he holds a funding from the Institut Universitaire de France for a project dedicated to the dynamics of memory. He has published numerous articles on memory. He has also co-edited several volumes on the same topic, including special issues (Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Synthese) and a book (Routledge).

  • André Sant’Anna

    André Sant’Anna is an SNSF Ambizione Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is PI of the SNSF-funded project "From Perception to Memory: Naïve Realism and the Nature of Episodic Memory". He is also the author of several articles on memory, perception, imagination, and metacognition and has co-edited three volumes, including Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory (Routledge, 2023).

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