Memory

Celebrating Our 500th Episode

中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播《哲学讲座》刚刚庆祝了第500期。从第一集的角度来看,这是一个很大的成就。让我回忆一下,回到我第一次有这个节目的想法的时候,让肯·泰勒加入,制作一个试播集,最终在2004年播出。

Trying to Let Go of the Past

你听过多少次别人劝你放下过去?一旦你看到这些痛苦的、创伤性的经历结束了,你就应该实现了“结束”,可以“继续你的生活”。但是尝试着放下过去的经历并不是你能做到的。

#FrancisOnFilm: Sundance - It's a Wrap!

In the last three days of Sundance, I was fortunate enough to see a few more movies worth looking out for. The first four below haven’t reportedly been sold for distribution, but you may be able to catch parts or all of them online.

Perception, Memory, and Justice

Psychological research reveals a lot of deeply troubling facts about human perception and memory that should make us very skeptical of eyewitness testimony. Of course, we don’t need science to tell us that if we witness something from too far away, or if it’s too dark, or if we’re intoxicated, then our testimony is not going to be very reliable. That just seems like common sense. But common sense may also lead us astray when it comes to the reliability of eyewitness testimony, and that is what a lot of the research on this topic is telling us.

Memory and the Self

在哲学上有一个悠久的传统,认为记忆和自我是密切相关的。例如,洛克声称,今天的我和昨天的我之所以是同一个人,基本上是因为我现在能记得我昨天做了什么或经历了什么。所以对洛克来说,记忆决定了我是谁。