%0 Journal Article %J Kriterion %D 2010 %T Memory as acquaintance with the past: some Lessons from Russell, 1912-1914 %A Faria, Paulo %P 149 - 172 %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-512X2010000100008&nrm=iso %V 51 %X

Russell's theory of memory as acquaintance with the past seems to square uneasily with his definition of acquaintance as the converse of the relation of presentation of an object to a subject. We show how the two views can be made to cohere under a suitable construal of 'presentation', which has the additional appeal of bringing Russell's theory of memory closer to contemporary views on direct reference and object-dependent thinking than is usually acknowledged. The drawback is that memory as acquaintance with the past falls short of fulfilling Russell's requirement that knowledge by acquaintance be discriminating knowledge - a shortcoming shared by contemporary externalist accounts of knowledge from memory.

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