The Phenomenology of Forgetting and the Constitution of Personal Identity

尽管遗忘在人类生活中无处不在，但学术研究对它的关注相对较少。我提出的研究旨在通过对遗忘在个人身份构成中的关键作用进行现象学分析来弥补这种忽视。这个分析将研究我的经验，我是谁是如何影响i）我忘记了自己，ii）特别重要的其他人忘记了我，iii）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中心问题。通过突出遗忘的经验影响，这种现象学的方法将超越遗忘的简化观点，即仅仅是未能“编码输入”或缺乏“神经痕迹”，它将使我能够阐明遗忘在我们的经验中扮演的关键角色。此外，这个项目不仅将提供一个复杂的现象学帐户的遗忘;它也将提供一个恰当的出发点，解决数字和医学人文遗忘的应用问题。论文1：遗忘对个人同一性的第一人称影响的现象学分析。将研究结果与痴呆症和健忘症的心理学案例研究进行比较，以提供上面概述的论文。利用这项研究，以突出道德的“被遗忘的权利在线”的第二篇论文如上。第三年-论文3：分析第三人称维度。把这项研究与文化健忘症和CLHLWR的发现联系起来，作为上面的第三篇论文。论文的修订。

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.