Collective mental time travel: remembering the past and imagining the future together

Bringing research on collective memory together with research on episodic future thought, Szpunar and Szpunar (Mem Stud 9(4):376-389, 2016) have recently developed the concept of collective future thought. Individual memory and individual future thought are increasingly seen as two forms of individu...

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Published in:Synthese (Dordrecht) 2019-12, Vol.196 (12), p.4933-4960
Main Authors: Michaelian, Kourken, Sutton, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition
Collective memory
Education
Epistemology
Future
Humanities and Social Sciences
Logic
Memory
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science
S.I. : Groups
Time
Time travel
Travel
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Summary:Bringing research on collective memory together with research on episodic future thought, Szpunar and Szpunar (Mem Stud 9(4):376-389, 2016) have recently developed the concept of collective future thought. Individual memory and individual future thought are increasingly seen as two forms of individual mental time travel, and it is natural to see collective memory and collective future thought as forms of collective mental time travel. But how seriously should the notion of collective mental time travel be taken? This article argues that, while collective mental time travel is disanalogous in important respects to individual mental time travel, the concept of collective mental time travel nevertheless provides a useful means of organizing existing findings, while also suggesting promising directions for future research.
ISSN:0039-7857
1573-0964
DOI:10.1007/s11229-017-1449-1