Mind and Memory

Abstract

In this essay, presented in honor of Professor J.N. Mohanty, I undertake to do what I did not accomplish in a recently published book on the subject of memory. In the book, I attempted to disentangle memory from mind through a critique of mentalistic models of memory -- models which limit remembering to acts of recollecting experiences in imagistic (visual or quasi-visual) “scenes”. But there is another story to tell, one in which the positive, productive links between mind and memory figure their complex intertwining, indeed their indispensability to each other.