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The ethics of individual memory: Structuring the field and wondering about its relevance| title | The ethics of individual memory: Structuring the field and wondering about its relevance |
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| start_date | 2024/01/11 |
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| schedule | 16h15-17h45 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | on Zoom |
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| summary | Although several ethics questions relate to individual memory, a distinct field of an ethics of a memory has not yet emerged. And while certain questions have received sustained analysis, the duty to bear witness and preserve painful memories as the perhaps most prominently example, there are hardly any attempts to structure the questions and analyse them in a systematic way. Several reasons might explain this absence. Memory might be seen as largely uncontrollable - but this does not do justice to the manifold though subtle ways to affect memories. Or it might be seen as a part of a broader ethics of the mind - but this may fail to do justice to the relevance of memory and its peculiar features. This talk thus proposes a taxonomy for an ethics of memory consisting of four orders and three modalities, identifies key case examples for each category, and invites the audiences to wonder whether developing such a system has any purchase on addressing specific ethical questions. |
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| responsibles | Righetti, Werning, Kourken, Andonovski |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/12/21 13:16 UTC |
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