Metacognition and the puzzle of alethic memory

André Sant’Anna
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Alethism is the view that successful remembering only requires an accurate representation of a past event. It opposes the truth-and-authenticity view, according to which successful remembering requires both an accurate representation of a past event and an accurate representation of a past experience of that event. Alethism is able to handle problematic cases faced by the truth-and-authenticity view, but it faces an important challenge of its own: If successful remembering only requires accurately representing past events, then how is it possible that our memories are also experienced as originating in past experiences of those events? I call this the puzzle of alethic memory. I argue that alethism can be reconciled with the claim that memories are experienced as originating in past experiences of those events—what I call the experience of first-handedness—if we conceive of the phenomenology of remembering in metacognitive terms. According to the metacognitive approach that I favor, the phenomenology of remembering is partly explained by what memory represents and partly explained by the existence of a metacognitive feeling that accompanies memory representations. I argue that accounting for the feeling of first-handedness in terms of the metacognitive feeling that accompanies memory representations allows us to solve the puzzle of alethic memory.
元认知与形象记忆之谜
阿莱思主义认为,成功的记忆只需要准确地再现过去的事件。这种观点认为,成功的记忆既需要准确地再现过去的事件,也需要准确地再现过去对该事件的体验。阿莱思主义能够处理真实与真实性观点所面临的问题,但它自身也面临着一个重要的挑战:如果成功的记忆只需要准确地再现过去的事件,那么我们的记忆又怎么可能也是源于对这些事件的过去体验呢?我把这个问题称为 "alethic memory "之谜。我认为,如果我们从元认知的角度来构想记忆的现象学,那么 "alethism "就可以与 "记忆起源于过去对这些事件的体验"--我称之为 "第一手体验"--这一说法相调和。根据我所赞成的元认知方法,记忆的现象学部分是由记忆所代表的事物来解释的,部分是由伴随记忆表征而存在的元认知感觉来解释的。我认为,从伴随着记忆表征的元认知感觉的角度来解释第一手感觉,可以让我们解决 "alethic memory"(alethic记忆)之谜。
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