The Phenomenology of Forgetting and the Constitution of Personal Identity

遗忘现象与个人身份的构成

• 批准号: 2123639
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Essex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2123639
• 关键词: Phenomenology; Forgetting; Constitution; Personal; Identity

Despite the ubiquity of forgetting in human life, scholarly research has said relatively little about it. My proposed research aims to begin to remedy this neglect by offering a phenomenological analysis of the pivotal role that forgetting plays in the constitution of personal identity. This analysis will investigate how my experience of who I am is impacted by i) what I forget about myself, ii) what particular significant others forget about me, and iii) what my culture forgets too. In other words, I will consider the central question from the first-, second-, and third-person perspectives. By foregrounding the experiential impact of forgetting, this phenomenological approach will move beyond the reductive view of forgetting as a mere failure to 'encode an input,' or an absence of a 'neural trace', and it will allow me to illuminate the crucial role forgetting plays in our experience of who we are. Moreover, this project will not only offer a sophisticated phenomenological account of forgetting; it will also provide a felicitous point of departure for addressing applied issues of forgetting in the digital and medical humanities.ScheduleYear 1 - Literature review. Thesis 1: Phenomenological analysis of the first-person impact of forgetting for personal identity. Compare findings to psychological case studies of dementia and amnesia with a view to providing a paper asoutlined above.Year 2 - Thesis 2: Analyse the second-person dimension of forgetting. Draw on this research to highlight the ethical 'right to be forgotten online' for second paper as above.Year 3 - Thesis 3: Analyse the third-person dimension. Relate this research to cultural amnesia and findings from the CLHLWR for a third paper as above. Revision of thesis.

尽管遗忘在人类生活中无处不在，但学术研究对它的研究相对较少。我提出的研究旨在通过对遗忘在个人同一性构成中所起的关键作用进行现象学分析，来弥补这种忽视。这个分析将调查我的自我体验是如何受到以下因素的影响的：(1)我对自己的遗忘，(2)特别重要的其他人对我的遗忘，(3)我的文化也忘记了什么。换句话说，我将从第一、第二和第三人称的角度来考虑这个中心问题。通过突出遗忘的经验影响，这种现象学方法将超越将遗忘视为仅仅是“输入编码”失败或缺乏“神经痕迹”的简化观点，它将使我能够阐明遗忘在我们对自己是谁的体验中所起的关键作用。此外，这个项目不仅会提供一个关于遗忘的复杂现象学解释；它还将为解决数字和医学人文学科中遗忘的应用问题提供一个恰当的出发点。第1年-文献综述。论文1：第一人称遗忘对个人同一性影响的现象学分析。将调查结果与痴呆症和健忘症的心理学案例研究进行比较，以期提供上述概述的论文。二年级-论文二：分析遗忘的第二人称维度。利用这项研究来强调上述第二篇论文的伦理“在线被遗忘权”。第三年-论文3：分析第三人称维度。将这项研究与上述第三篇论文中CLHLWR的文化健忘症和发现联系起来。论文修改。