Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez
Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist
I am a philosopher of mind and memory. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, a specialisation in Social Sciences, and a master’s degree in Cognitive Sciences. I have been working as a teacher since 2007 and as a teacher trainer since 2014.
Currently, I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia (UWA), under the supervision of Rob Wilson. My research focuses on episodic thinking, with a specific emphasis on episodic memory and its interaction with imagination, identity, language, and collective memory…
Publications
Trauma is in the Response: Towards a Post-Causal Perspective in the Definition of Psychological Trauma (in Spanish)
Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
The concept of psychological trauma is polysemic and remains a subject of debate among academics and researchers. In this article, I argue that this view is inadequate as it fails to sufficiently explain significant trauma-related effects that present anomalies for the causal position. I defend two claims. First, that in defining psychological trauma, we must move beyond the need for a strong causal relationship dependent on the traumatic event (TE) and shift towards a weak causal perspective. Second…
Memory and Perception in the Autobiographical Interview: An Episodic Simulation Adapting in Real Time to Context (in Spanish)
Estud.filos no.64 Medellín July/Dec. 2021 Epub Sep 22, 2021
Perception and memory are usually considered independent capacities, with the belief that perception only influences memory during encoding. However, in autobiographical interviews focused on oral history and historical memory, interviewees select, adapt, and complete their memories to create different versions of them. This article argues that this dynamic is a consequence of the simulative nature of episodic memory and the interviewees’ use of perceptual information to construct and adjust their memories to an autobiographical discourse, aiming to fulfil a communicative purpose…
Moments
Like a tragic litany, dull memory repeats itself. Living memory, on the other hand, is born anew each day, for it exists from what was and against what was.
Eduardo Galeano
El libro de los abrazos
The identity of a person is not their name, the place where they were born, or the date they came into the world. A person’s identity consists, quite simply, in being, and being cannot be denied.
José Saramago
Carta Abierta a la Solidaridad
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of inconstant forms, that heap of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges
Elogio de la sombra
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