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The Essay: Forgetting: Forgetting Ourselves

BBC · Internet Archive (Internet Archive)

Professor Francis O'Gorman wonders how much of what we think is remembering is actually forgetting. What exactly is our relationship with past time and fantasy? He explores the compound presence of forgetfulness masquerading as memory: from the revisiting of places, the re-reading of books, and the revisiting of people we once knew. Is our hold on the past more determined by what we do not remember, cannot remember, or do not want to remember than we easily admit?

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Frise, Matthew · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 2018

Forgetting is importantly related to remembering, evidence possession, epistemic virtue, personal identity, and a host of highly-researched memory conditions. In this paper I examine the nature of forgetting. I canvass the viable options for forgetting’s ontological category, type of content, characteristic relation to content, and scale. I distinguish several theories of forgetting in the philosophy and psychology of memory literatures, theories that diverge on these options. The best theories from the literature, I claim, fail two critical tests that I develop (the metacognition and prospection tests), underwriting arguments against the theories. I introduce a new theory about the state of forgetting—the learning, access failure, dispositional (LEAD) theory: to forget is to fail to access something that is both learned and either inaccessible or intended to be accessed. I argue that the LEAD theory of forgetting is the lead theory of forgetting. It passes the metacognition and prospection tests, and has several further virtues at no cost. Finally, I advocate reductionism about the process of forgetting; the process reduces wholly to states of forgetting. In particular, a process of forgetting is just a sequence of increasingly strong states of forgetting.

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Laura L.S. Werner, Jarrod A. Lewis‐Peacock · Elsevier eBooks · 2024

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Perkins, Harriett · Digital Commons @ Butler University (Butler University) · 2016

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Harriett Perkins · Digital Commons @ Butler University (Butler University) · 2016

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PubMed Central · 1964

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Diane Oenning Thompson · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1991

Not everything in heaven have I hated,Not everything on earth have I disdained.The Angel, H. S. Pushkin

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Gordon D. A. Brown, Lewandowsky, Stephan · Psychology Press eBooks · 2010

SCOPUS: ch.b

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Brown, Peter Andrew · ThinkTech (Texas Tech University) · 2015

Our suburban villas are conveniently located.We live near "employment centers, outstanding schools, fine shopping, cultural activities, entertainment, and all the other activities of our lives."!We live in suburbia.It is our range of experience.

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Bailey, Merritt · Iowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State University) · 1947

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Beth Sherman · ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) · 2025

Beth Sherman has an MFA in creative writing from Queens College, where she teaches in the English department. Her writing has been published in more than 100 literary magazines, including Portland Review, Tiny Molecules, 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres. Her work is featured in Best Microfiction 2024. She’s also a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and multiple Best of the Net nominee. She can be reached at @bsherm36 or at bethsherman.site.

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Bryant Smith · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2006

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Somayyeh Shahhoseiny · transcript Verlag eBooks · 2025

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