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. 2018 Jan:41:e29.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001492.

Confabulation and epistemic authority

Sarah Robins  1
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Confabulation and epistemic authority

Sarah Robins. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Mahr & Csibra (M&C) claim that episodic remembering's autonoetic character serves as an indicator of epistemic authority. This proposal is difficult to reconcile with the existence of confabulation errors - where participants fabricate memories of experiences that never happened to them. Making confabulation errors damages one's epistemic authority, but these false memories have an autonoetic character.

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    Mahr JB, Csibra G. Mahr JB, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan;41:e35. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001959. Behav Brain Sci. 2018. PMID: 29353593

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