Defending functionalism and self-reference in memory

In recent work, Sarah Robins, Gerardo Viera and Steven James have provided some insightful objections to the ideas offered in my book, Memory: A Self-Referential Account. this paper, I put forward responses those objections. Robins challenges idea that being a memory could be matter of having particular functional role within subject’s cognitive economy. content explain its phenomenological properties. And our memories immune error through misidentification. All three commentators are targeting, not tangential aspects of, but fundamental assumptions account proposed book. For reason, modifying would amount proposing whole different memory. hope show, however, such radical move is necessary. there possible from all which available constraints