Kourken Michaelian is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in the epistemology of memory and testimony. He is best known for developing a simulationist account of episodic memory and for extending social epistemological frameworks to the transmission of testimonial knowledge across chains of informants. His work bridges philosophy of mind, epistemology, and cognitive science.
Developed a simulationist theory of episodic memory, arguing memory is constructive rather than reproductive
Extended the epistemology of testimony to multi-link transmission chains and their justificatory effects
Authored 'Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past' (2016)
Applied extended mind and distributed cognition frameworks to collective and external memory
Co-edited 'New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory' (2018), shaping the sub-field
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