[PHILOS-L] workshop Amnesia & Identity with Carl Craver, Stirling & online, Sept 24-25: schedule & final registration call

[John Sutton]

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Amnesia and Identity

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling

September 24-25, 2025

 

The workshop addresses themes from the forthcoming Oxford University Press book Living without Memory: amnesia and the lives of persons by Carl Craver (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, USA) and R. Shayna Rosenbaum (Cognitive Neuroscience, York University, Canada).

Please register here to attend in person or online: the streaming link will be sent after registration.

Enquiries: john....@stir.ac.uk

 

Schedule

Day 1: Wednesday September 24 – Room C22, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling

2.00  John Sutton (Stirling) - welcome

2.10  Andrea Blomkvist (Glasgow) - Vividly remembering the past and imagining the future? Comparisons between aphantasia and amnesia

2.50  Rachael Elward (London South Bank) - Memory development and the emergence of developmental amnesia following early hippocampal injury

3.30  coffee break

4.00 Michael Kopelman (KCL) (online) - The subjective sense of identity in neurological and psychogenic amnesia

4.40 Carl Craver (Washington University St Louis) – Lesions and persons: methodological integration across an ontological divide

 

Day 2: Thursday September 25 - SCION House, University of Stirling

9.30  Christoph Hoerl (Warwick) & Teresa McCormack (QUB) - The benefits of mental time travel

10.30  coffee break

10.50  Gema Martin-Ordas (Stirling) - Trapped in time? What comparative psychology can teach us about episodic memory                    

11.30  Clare Rathbone (Oxford Brookes) - Amnesia and identity: the scaffolding function of self-images

12.10  Louis Renoult (UEA) - Knowing what we remember: methodological and theoretical challenges when comparing semantic and episodic memory 

12.50  lunch   

1.40  Catherine Loveday (Westminster) - The lived experience of memory loss: an interdisciplinary perspective

2.20  Shayna Rosenbaum (York, Canada) (online) - Dissociations in future thinking: insights from individuals with amnesia

3.00  workshop ends

About the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Established in late 2024 at the University of Stirling, the Centre is funded by a £4m award from the Leverhulme Trust. Anchored in Philosophy and housed in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Centre draws on cognitive sciences, social sciences, and the arts to break new ground in the study of spatial thinking, disorientation, and remembering the past. It connects the sciences of space and memory with contemporary practical concerns about memory, emotion, and place.

John Sutton

Leverhulme International Professor, 

Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling

Emeritus @ Macquarie University, Sydney

john....@stir.ac.uk

@SuttonProfessor

https://johnsutton.net/

https://placememory.net/

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=yDy5c38AAAAJ

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