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Memory, society, and moral responsibility| old_uid | 19569 |
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| title | Memory, society, and moral responsibility |
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| start_date | 2021/12/09 |
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| schedule | 16h15-17h45 UTC+1 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | When we look at the past, there might be many things we wish to avoid repeating. One way to do this is by learning from the past, enabling us to create a better future. At the same time, knowledge about the past might bring with it a special kind of responsibility for the future. In this talk I will take a look at an intersection that has scarcely been explored so far: memory, society and moral responsibility. While false memories on an individual level have received their fair share of attention, the philosophical study of false memories on a collective level has largely been overlooked. Yet, if what we remember about the past is false, what can be learned from it? To narrow down the topic, I start by briefly sketching the possible interactions between an individual and society when it comes to the moral responsibility of remembering. I then focus on the moral responsibility an individual has towards society, and society has towards itself at different points in time. Specifically, whether there might be a moral responsibility to ensure the veracity of memories in, or possibly of, a society will be discussed. This will include looking not only at already existing memories but also at the moral responsibility a society might have concerning memories a future self, or a future society, might foreseeably have (i.e. past-directed as well as future-directed moral responsibility). Given the recent interest in disinformation phenomena such as fake news, getting the ball rolling on such an intersection as described here seems long overdue in the philosophy of memory. |
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| responsibles | Peeters, Kourken, Andonovski |
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