Confabulation and epistemic authority.

Behav Brain Sci

Psychology Department, University of Kansas,Lawrence,KS

Published: January 2018

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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