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Confabulation and epistemic authority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2018

Sarah Robins
Sarah Robins*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. skrobins@ku.edu www.sarahkrobins.org
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Abstract

Mahr & Csibra (M&C) claim that episodic remembering's autonoetic character serves as an indicator of epistemic authority. This proposal is difficult to reconcile with the existence of confabulation errors – where participants fabricate memories of experiences that never happened to them. Making confabulation errors damages one's epistemic authority, but these false memories have an autonoetic character.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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