Mnemonic agency?

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Do we have control over what we remember and forget? I argue that beyond diachronic strategies, we can actively monitor and regulate our memory processes, and that this capacity helps explain why holding people responsible for memory errors is not entirely misguided.

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The sense of mineness in personal memory: Problems for the endorsement model.Marina Trakas - 2021 - Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 64:155-172.
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