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.
This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from philosophy and psychology to investigate the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency.
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
Daniel Vanello is Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at UCLs 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.
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