Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-64420-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

This volume brings together, for the first time, perspectives from philosophy and psychology to investigate the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency. Autobiographical memory is the ability to recollect events in one’s past as part of one’s personal history. Moral agency is the ability to make moral judgements, act morally, and have a conception of the good life. Although a number of philosophers and psychologists have drawn attention to the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency, there is no sustained project that brings together these different lines of inquiry into a unified research area.

The aim of this volume is to answer this need by bringing together leading voices in research in autobiographical memory and moral agency from both philosophy and psychology to provide a unified framework for a new interdisciplinary research area. Key areas of research explored in this volume include temporal perspectives, moral identity, autobiographical narrative, joint reminiscing, the internalisation of moral value, attachments, and amnesia.

Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency will appeal to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, philosophy of education, developmental psychology, and educational psychology who are interested in the role of memory in moral psychology and moral development.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanello, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency 1. Perspectives on Past and Future Perspectives 2. The Integrity of Moral Witnesses: Understanding Evil Through Autobiographical Memory 3. Moral Agency and Responsibility in Autobiographical Remembering 4. Embrace the Glorious Mess that You Are: Autobiographical Memory, Agency, and a Diachronic Sense of Self 5. Regret and Episodic Memory 6. Narrating Moral Identity as a Quest: A Necessary Feature of Human Agency? 7. Constructing Moral Agency Through Autobiographical Narration 8. The Moral Dimensions of Narrative Identity 9. Autobiographical Memory in Narratives of Alcoholism and Recovery 10. Ethics and Morality in Autobiographical Narrating: How Do Judgments of Moral Rightness and Ideas of a Good Life Show in Brief Entire Life Narratives? 11. Episodic Memory, Memories, and the Pleasure of Remembering 12. The Value of Family Storytelling 13. Constructing Moral Beliefs about Self and Others in the Context of Morally Laden Parent-child Discourse 14. Auld Acquaintance: Remembering People and Ethics

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Vanello is Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at UCL’s Institute of Education. His areas of expertise are philosophy of mind and psychology, and ethics. Recent publications include “Moral Understanding, Affect, and the Imagination” in Inquiry and “Autobiographical Memory and Moral Identity Development” in Journal of Consciousness Studies.