Memory and Language 2:
Simulationist and Causalist Approaches to Reference in Remembering
(Université Grenoble Alpes)

Schedule:

26/03/2026

  • 10:15-10:30. Welcome.
  • 10:30-11:20. Pictorial accuracy: lessons from philosophy of memory. Kristina Liefke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
  • 11:30-12:20. Are episodic traces constitutive of reference in event remembering? James Openshaw (Nanyang Technological University).
  • 12:30-14:30. Lunch.
  • 14:30-15:20. Inquiring into memory. Megan Entwistle (Washington University in Saint Louis).
  • 15:30-16:20. An explanatory role for episodic memory in demonstrative thought. José Carlos Camillo (Université de Genève).
  • 16:30-17:00. Coffee break.
  • 17:00-17:50. Indeterminacy of events: A metasemantic case against simulationism. Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 18:00-18:50. Memory reports as state descriptions: a view from the Iranian languages. Ryan Smith (Rutgers University).
  • 20:00. Dinner.

27/03/2026

  • 10:30-11:20. Imagination as cancelled memory. Uku Tooming & Henrik Sova (University of Tartu).
  • 11:30-12:20. Remembering everything, always, all at once – event quantification solves memory puzzles. Emil Eva Rosina (Masaryk University Brno).
  • 12:30-14:30. Lunch
  • 14:30-15:20. Reference in episodic future thought. Jakub Rudnicki (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 15:30-16:20. Language, concepts, and natural kinds in psychology: the case of episodic memory. Markus Werning (University of Bochum).

Organizers: Jakub Rudnicki (Université Grenoble Alpes), Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes), Kristina Liefke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes), Ariel de Oliveira Gonçalves (Université Grenoble Alpes), Jay Richardson (Université Grenoble Alpes).