Lifting off from St Augustine's philosophical inquiry into memory ("I come to the fields and vast palaces of memory, where are treasuries of all kinds of objects"), Kermode investigates those "deep, vertiginous mnemonic plunges" through the sequencing of which people make sense of their lives.
Dr. Anderson said "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," impressed him because of the philosophical questions about memory it raises and its technological sophistication.
Instead, it turns to a philosophical meditation on memory and an interpretation of the opening of Genesis, as if that were where his whole autobiography had been heading.
Mr. Kiarostami's trio of films about the provincial town of Koker before and after a devastating earthquake — "Where Is the Friend's Home?" (1987), "Life and Nothing More" (1991) and "Through the Olive Trees" (1994) — are at once richly philosophical meditations on memory, experience and the nature of cinema, and works of social exploration in the neo-realist tradition.
The digital age is also raising broader philosophical questions about memory.
Rather, philosophical treatments of memory seek for conditions that are a priori constitutive of the truth of such sentences as "Penelope remembers doing X".
Much 20th-century philosophical discussion of memory addressed its status as a source of knowledge, either in the context of general sceptical concerns about knowledge of the past, or in investigating criteria for the reliability of particular memory beliefs (Owens 1999; and see the entry on epistemological problems of memory).
This entry's primary focus is on that part of contemporary philosophical discussion of memory which is continuous with the development of theories in the cognitive and social sciences: attention to these interdisciplinary fields of memory studies is driving renewed work on the topic.
FitzGerald's work steadily progressed from To Meet the Sun (1929), now considered rather dated and derivative, to Moonlight Acre (1938), which includes a philosophical poem, "Essay on Memory," that won a national prize.
He brought to his interpretation not only his philosophical acumen but also memories that reached back decades to the signs of inquieta adulescentia that made his father babble excitedly to his wife about grandchildren.
