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Relational Memory under the Paradigm of Neutral Monism
1 : Dominican University College
(DUC)
I accept the Canadian feminist philosopher, Sue Campbell's, claim that the cognitive faculty of memory is tied to identity and shapes not only our past but also our future. I accept Campbell's argument in favor of relational and reconstructive, as opposed to archival/Lockean account of memory. I will argue that the best fitting metaphysical and epistemological framework for the relational account of memory is that of Bertrand Russell's theory of neutral monism. The main advantages of neutral monism with regards to a feminist reconstruction of memory is that it is fully compatible with panpsychism, and it avoids dichotomizing the memory debate.
