The Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture: Katherine Puddifoot

This talk will explore how conceptions about memory can be crucial to determining whether justice and fairness are secured. It will show how claims to remember can both support and undermine justice, and different ways to conceptualise memory can support or undermine these claims. It will then argue that theorists interested in developing accounts of what it is to remember ought to keep in mind how different conceptions of memory can support or undermine injustice. And, fairly radically, it will argue that accounts of what it is to remember ought to be constrained by the demand to develop conceptions of memory that support rather than undermine justice and fairness.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Old Fire Station, cafe, 40 George Street, Oxford, United Kingdom