Sven Bernecker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. After obtaining his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, he held research positions at the University of Munich, Birkbeck College London, the University of Manchester, and the University of Vienna. He is a recipient of a Humboldt Research Award, a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Philosophical Association, and Director of the Southern California Epistemology Network. His work is mainly in epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, Kant and German Idealism. He has published numerous articles in these areas and is the author of three books — Reading Epistemology (2006), The Metaphysics of Memory (2008), and Memory: A Philosophical Study (2010). Currently he is editing a Handbook of the Philosophy of Memory and working on a monograph on the metaphysical foundations of knowledge.
Sven Bernecker
Professor of Philosophy, the University of California, Irvine
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Jan 1st
2015
Jan 1st
2015
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Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics
This series of fourteen roundtables will explore fundamental questions across the sciences and humanities, including knowledge and its limits, infinity, complexity and emergence, consciousness, memory, free will, genius, development, and the nature of human experience.
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Nov 7th
2015
Nov 7th
2015
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Speak, Memory
This roundtable will examine how advances in memory research can deepen our understanding of the role memory plays in normal development and in shaping lived experience, while also informing efforts to address memory impairment in an aging population. It will further consider how dialogue between scientific researchers and practitioners of memory can foster mutual insights into the mechanisms, limits, and cultivation of memory across contexts.