Professor, Université Grenoble Alpes

Director, Centre for Philosophy of Memory

Member, Institut de philosophie de Grenoble

Senior member, Institut universitaire de France

Office: 202 CTL
Mailing address: IPhiG

Telephone: +33 (0)4 76 74 34 06
Email: name.surname@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

ORCID: 0000-0002-5205-3046
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I'm a full professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes.

At the UGA, I direct the Centre for Philosophy of Memory within the Institut de philosophie de Grenoble. In addition to my activities as director of the CPM, which include organizing various conferences, workshops, and seminars, hosting visiting researchers and students, and maintaining PhilMemBib (a comprehensive philosophy of memory database), I have recently been a vice-president of the Société de philosophie analytique, served as a member of the steering committee of the Philosophy of Memory Organization, and been involved in creating the Eurasian Memory Network. I serve as an executive editor of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, am a member of the editorial boards of journals including Memory Studies and Memory, Mind & Media, and coedit OUP's Philosophy of Memory and Imagination book series.

My research has recently been funded by the IUF, the IDEX UGA, the CAPES-COFECUB programme, and the NTU-UGA-UT Trilateral Center. I'm currently the PI on a project, funded by the ANR and running until fall 2026, on Simulationist and Causalist Approaches to Reference in Remembering (SCARR) and the French PI on a project, funded by the ANR and the DFG, running from 2026 to 2029, and led by Kristina Liefke as German PI, on the Semantics of Episodic Representations (SEER). I'm also a team member on a project, funded by the ARC and led by Kristie Miller, on mental time travel in humans and nonhuman animals and a team member on a projected, funded by an International Research Booster grant from the UGA and led by Denis Perrin and Yasushi Hirai, on analytic and Bergsonian approaches to memory.

I currently supervise two postdocs: Francesca Righetti and Jakub Rudnicki. I recently supervised Nikola Andonovski, Jelena Markovic (currently a postdoc at the University of Virginia in the US), Chris McCarroll (currently an associate professor at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan), James Openshaw (currently an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore), and André Sant'Anna (currently an assistant professor at Yonsei University in Korea). I currently supervise one PhD student: Ariel de Oliveira Gonçalves (in a cotutelle with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil). I recently supervised Juan F. Álvarez (currently a postdoc at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany), Nicolas Crozatier (shortly to start a postdoc at the Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique), and Vilius Dranseika (currently a researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Poland).

I teach in the philosophy department at the UGA. Note that we offer a philosophy of cognition stream at the master's level.

Authored book

  1. [link] Michaelian, K. (2016). Mental time travel: Episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past. MIT Press.

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Edited volumes

  1. [link] Michaelian, K., Sakuragi, S., Lin, Y.-T., McCarroll, C., & Sant’Anna, A. (Eds.). (Publication in progress). Philosophy of memory: Papers from the Eurasian Memory Meeting [Topical collection]. Asian Journal of Philosophy.
  2. [link] Openshaw, J., Michaelian, K., & Perrin, D. (Eds). (2023-2025). Reference and remembering [Topical collection]. Synthese.
  3. [link] Gregory, D., & Michaelian, K. (Eds). (2024). Dreaming and memory: Philosophical issues. Springer.
  4. [link] Lin, Y.-T., McCarroll, C., Michaelian, K., & Stuart, M. (Eds.). (2024). Successful and unsuccessful remembering and imagining [Special issue]. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
  5. [link] Sant'Anna, A., McCarroll, C. J., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.). (2023). Current controversies in philosophy of memory. Routledge.
  6. [link] McCarroll, C. J., Michaelian, K., & Arango-Muñoz, S. (Eds.). (2021). Memory and perception [Special issue]. Estudios de Filosofía 64.
  7. [link] Sant'Anna, A., Michaelian, K., & Perrin, D. (Eds.). (2020). Memory as mental time travel [Special issue]. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11(2).
  8. [link] Michaelian, K., Debus, D., & Perrin, D. (Eds.). (2018). New directions in the philosophy of memory. Routledge.
  9. [link] Bernecker, S., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory. Routledge.
  10. [link] Michaelian, K., Klein, S. B., & Szpunar, K. K. (Eds.). (2016). Seeing the future: Theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel. Oxford University Press.
  11. [link] Michaelian, K., & Arango-Muñoz, S. (Eds.). (2014). Epistemic feelings and epistemic emotions [Special section]. Philosophical Inquiries 2(1).
  12. [link] Michaelian, K., & Sutton, J. (Eds.). (2013). Distributed cognition and memory research [Special issue]. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4(1).

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Articles and chapters

  1. [PDF] Rudnicki, J., Michaelian, K., & Álvarez, J. (Forthcoming). Memory and imagination. In Sant'Anna, A., & Craver, C. (Eds.), Oxford handbook of philosophy of memory. Oxford University Press.
  2. [PDF] [link] Wang, Y., & Michaelian, K. (2026). 记忆知识论中的生成主义转向 (The generationist turn in the epistemology of memory). 自然辩证法通讯 (Journal of Dialectics of Nature), 48(3), 27-36.
  3. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Perrin, D. (2025). The Centre for Philosophy of Memory: The first seven years. Revista de Humanidades de Valparaiso, 28, 26-35.
  4. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2025). Causation, construction, continuity: A simulationist response to Hirai’s simulationist interpretation of Bergson’s theory of memory. Bergsoniana, 6.
  5. [PDF] [DOI] Andonovski, N., & Michaelian, K. (2025). Memory. In Frank, M. C., & Majid, A. (Eds.), Open encyclopedia of cognitive science. MIT Press.
  6. [PDF] [link] Michaelian, K., & Bakalova, M. (2025). Naturalized epistemology: A brief introduction. In Horvath, J., Koch, S., & Titelbaum, M. G. (Eds.), Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Primer and Guide (pp. 173-184). PhilPapers Foundation.
  7. [PDF] [link] Sakuragi, S., Dranseika, V., & Michaelian, K. (2025). Trends in philosophy of memory: A quantitative approach. Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology, Words about memory.
  8. [PDF] [DOI] Openshaw, J., Michaelian, K., & Perrin, D. (2025). Reference and remembering: Editorial introduction. Synthese, 205, 114.
  9. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., Álvarez, J., & Openshaw, J. (2025). Is De Brigard a simulationist? Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 6.
  10. [PDF] [DOI] Andonovski, N., & Michaelian, K. (2024). Naturalism and simulationism in the philosophy of memory. In Hossein Khani, A., Kemp, G., Rezaei, H. S., & Amiriara, H. (Eds.), Naturalism and its challenges (pp. 252-273). Routledge.
  11. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2024). True, authentic, faithful: Accuracy in memory for dreams. In Gregory, D., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.), Dreaming and memory: Philosophical issues (pp. 155-176). Springer.
  12. [PDF] [DOI] Gregory, D., & Michaelian, K. (2024). Dreaming and memory: Editors' introduction. In Gregory, D., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.), Dreaming and memory: Philosophical issues (pp. 1-10). Springer.
  13. [PDF] [DOI] Lin, Y.-T., McCarroll, C., Michaelian, K., & Stuart, M. (2024). Successful and unsuccessful remembering and imagining: Editorial introduction. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 5.
  14. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., Sakuragi, S., Openshaw, J., & Perrin, D. (2024). Mental time travel. In Bietti, L., & Pogačar, M. (Eds.), Palgrave encyclopedia of memory studies. Palgrave.
  15. [PDF] Michaelian, K., & Sutton, J. (2024). Memória. (Dutra, F., & Kovalczyk, S. Trans.). In Fraga Dantas, D. (Ed.), Textos selecionados sobre memória e imaginação. Editora UFPel.
  16. [PDF] [DOI] McCarroll, C., Michaelian, K., and Nanay, B. (2024). Explanatory contextualism about episodic memory: Towards a diagnosis of the causalist-simulationist debate. Erkenntnis, 89, 2273-2301.
  17. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2024). Radicalizing simulationism: Remembering as imagining the (nonpersonal) past. Philosophical Psychology, 37(5), 1170-1196.
  18. [PDF] [DOI] Openshaw, J., & Michaelian, K. (2024). Reference in remembering: Towards a simulationist account. Synthese, 203, 90.
  19. [PDF] [DOI] Sant'Anna, A., Michaelian, K., & Andonovski, N. (2024). Autonoesis and episodicity: Perspectives from philosophy of memory. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 15(1), e1665.
  20. [PDF] Schirmer dos Santos, C., Sant'Anna, A., Michaelian, K., Openshaw, J., & Perrin, D. (2023). Debates contemporâneos em filosofia da memória: Uma breve introdução. Lampião - Revista de Filosofia, 4(1), 139-184.
  21. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Sakuragi, S. (2023). Shared metamemory and (the feeling of) shared memory. Current Anthropology, 64(6), 723.
  22. [PDF] McCarroll, C., & Michaelian, K. (2023). Deconstructing accuracy in episodic memory. Constructivist Foundations, 19(1), 65-67.
  23. [PDF] [DOI] Andonovski, N., & Michaelian, K. (2023). Accounting for the strangeness, infrequency, and suddenness of déjà vu. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e358.
  24. [PDF] Michaelian, K., & Perrin, D. (2023). La métaphysique de la mémoire collective. In Luciani, I., & Souchay, C. (Eds.), La mémoire à l’épreuve de l’interdisciplinarité. Sciences humaines et cognitives (pp. 27-54). Presses Universitaires de Provence.
  25. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2023). Towards a virtue-theoretic account of confabulation. In Sant'Anna, A., McCarroll, C., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.), Current controversies in philosophy of memory (pp. 127-144). Routledge.
  26. [PDF] [DOI] Sant'Anna, A., McCarroll, C., & Michaelian, K. (2023). Current controversies in philosophy of memory: Editors' introduction. In Sant'Anna, A., McCarroll, C., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.), Current controversies in philosophy of memory (pp. 1-16). Routledge.
  27. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2023). If remembering is imagining, then what is forgetting? In A. Berninger & Í. Vendrell Ferran (Eds.), Philosophical perspectives on memory and imagination (pp. 76-93). Routledge.
  28. [PDF] Michaelian, K. (2022). Against Perrin's embodied causalism: Still no evidence for the necessity of appropriate causation. Intellectica, 76, 175-190.
  29. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Sant'Anna, A. (2022). From authenticism to alethism: Against McCarroll on observer memory. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 21, 835-856.
  30. [PDF] [DOI] Cosentino, E., McCarroll, C., & Michaelian, K. (2022). Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination: The roles of mental time travel and metacognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 21, 791-811.
  31. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., Perrin, D., Sant'Anna, A., & Schirmer dos Santos, C. (2022). Mental time travel. In V. P. Glăveanu (Ed.), Palgrave encyclopedia of the possible. Palgrave Macmillan.
  32. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., Dranseika, V., & Álvarez, J. (2021). Experimental philosophy of memory. Acta Scientiarum: Human and Social Sciences, 43, e60875.
  33. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2021). Imagining the past reliably and unreliably: Towards a virtue theory of memory. Synthese, 199, 7477-7507.
  34. [PDF] [DOI] Dranseika, V., McCarroll, C., & Michaelian, K. (2021). Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy. Consciousness and Cognition, 96, 103240.
  35. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2021). Episodic memory is not immune to error through misidentification: Against Fernández. Synthese, 198, 95252-9543.
  36. [PDF] [DOI] McCarroll, C., Michaelian, K., & Arango-Muñoz, S. (2021). Memory and perception, insights at the interface: Editors' introduction. Estudios de Filosofía, 64, 5-19.
  37. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Sant'Anna, A. (2021). Memory without content? Radical enactivism and (post)causal theories of memory. Synthese, 198(Suppl 1), S307-S335.
  38. [PDF] [DOI] Perrin, D., Michaelian, K., & Sant'Anna, A. (2020). The phenomenology of remembering is an epistemic feeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1531.
  39. [PDF] [DOI] Sant'Anna, A., Michaelian, K., & Perrin, D. (2020). Editorial: Memory as mental time travel. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2), 223-232.
  40. [PDF] [DOI] Arango-Muñoz, S., & Michaelian, K. (2020). From collective memory ... to collective metamemory? In Fiebich, A. (Ed.), Minimal cooperation and shared agency (pp. 195-217). Springer.
  41. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., Perrin, D., & Sant'Anna, A. (2020). Continuities and discontinuities between imagination and memory: The view from philosophy. In Abraham, A. (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of the imagination (pp. 293-310). Cambridge University Press.
  42. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2020). Confabulating as unreliable imagining: In defence of the simulationist account of unsuccessful remembering. Topoi, 39, 133-148.
  43. [PDF] [DOI] Bernecker, S., & Michaelian, K. (2019). Book review symposium: Editors' response. Memory Studies, 12(6), 746-750.
  44. [PDF] [DOI] Sant'Anna, A., & Michaelian, K. (2019). Teorias sobre o lembrar: Causalismo, simulacionismo e funcionalismo. Voluntas, 10(3), 8-36.
  45. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Sutton, J. (2019). Collective mental time travel: Remembering the past and imagining the future together. Synthese, 196, 4933-4960.
  46. [PDF] [DOI] Sant'Anna, A., & Michaelian, K. (2019). Thinking about events: A pragmatist account of the objects of episodic hypothetical thought. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 10, 187-217.
  47. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Arango-Muñoz, S. (2018). Collaborative memory knowlege: A distributed reliabilist perspective. In Meade, M., Harris, C. B., van Bergen, P., Sutton, J., & Barnier, A. J. (Eds.), Collaborative remembering: Theories, research, applications (pp. 231-247). Oxford University Press.
  48. [PDF] Michaelian, K., & Robins, S. K. (2018). Beyond the causal theory? Fifty years after Martin and Deutscher. In Michaelian, K., Debus, D., & Perrin, D. (Eds.), New directions in the philosophy of memory (pp. 13-32). Routledge.
  49. [PDF] Michaelian, K., Debus, D., & Perrin, D. (2018). The philosophy of memory today and tomorrow: Editors' introduction. In Michaelian, K., Debus, D., & Perrin, D. (Eds.), New directions in the philosophy of memory (pp. 1-9). Routledge.
  50. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2018). Autonoesis and reconstruction in episodic memory: Is remembering systematically misleading? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41(1), E22.
  51. [link] Michaelian, K. (2018). Naturalistic descriptions of knowledge. In Hetherington, S., & Valaris, M. (Eds.), Philosophy of knowledge: A history (Vol. IV: Knowledge in contemporary philosophy) (pp. 69-88). Bloomsbury.
  52. [PDF] [link] Michaelian, K., & Sutton, J. (2017). Memory. In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.), Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/memory/
  53. [PDF] Michaelian, K., & Sutton, J. (2017). Collective memory. In Jankovic, M., & Ludwig, K. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of collective intentionality. (pp. 140-151). Routledge.
  54. [PDF] Perrin, D., & Michaelian, K. (2017). Memory as mental time travel. In Bernecker, S., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory. (pp. 228-239). Routledge.
  55. [PDF] Bernecker, S., & Michaelian, K. (2017). The philosophy of memory today: Editors' introduction. In Bernecker, S., & Michaelian, K. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory. (pp. 1-3). Routledge.
  56. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2016). Confabulating, misremembering, relearning: The simulation theory of memory and unsuccessful remembering. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1857.
  57. [PDF] [DOI] Davies, J., & Michaelian, K. (2016). Identifying and individuating cognitive systems: A task-based distributed cognition alternative to agent-based extended cognition. Cognitive Processing, 17, 307-319.
  58. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2016). Against discontinuism: Mental time travel and our knowledge of past and future events. In Michaelian, K., Klein, S. B., & Szpunar, K. K. (Eds.), Seeing the future: Theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel (pp. 62-92). Oxford University Press.
  59. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., Klein, S. B., & Szpunar, K. K. (2016). The past, the present, and the future of future-oriented mental time travel. In Michaelian, K., Klein, S. B., & Szpunar, K. K. (Eds.), Seeing the future: Theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel (pp. 1-18). Oxford University Press.
  60. [link] Michaelian, K. (2016). Memory. In McLaughlin, B. (Ed.), Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy: Mind (pp. 227-243). Macmillan Reference.
  61. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2015). Opening the doors of memory: Is declarative memory a natural kind? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 6, 475-482.
  62. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2014). JFGI: From distributed cognition to distributed reliabilism. Philosophical Issues, 24 314-346.
  63. [link] Michaelian, K. (2014). La mémoire comme source de connaissances. In Chevalier, J.-M., & Gaultier, B. (Eds.), Connaître. Questions d’épistémologie contemporaine (pp. 119-148). Editions d'Ithaque.
  64. [PDF] [DOI] Arango-Muñoz, S., & Michaelian, K. (2014). Epistemic feelings, epistemic emotions: Review and introduction to the focus section. Philosophical Inquiries, 2(1), 97-122.
  65. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2013). The evolution of testimony: Receiver vigilance, speaker honesty, and the reliability of communication. Episteme, 10(1), 37-59.
  66. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2013). The information effect: Constructive memory, testimony, and epistemic luck. Synthese, 190, 2429–2456.
  67. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K., & Sutton, J. (2013). Distributed cognition and memory research: History and current directions. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4, 1-24.
  68. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2012). Metacognition and endorsement. Mind & Language, 27(3), 284-307.
  69. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2012). Is external memory memory? Biological memory and extended mind. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1154-1165.
  70. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2012). (Social) metacognition and (self-)trust. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 481-514.
  71. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2011). The epistemology of forgetting. Erkenntnis, 74, 399-424.
  72. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2011). Generative memory. Philosophical Psychology, 24(3), 323-342.
  73. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2011). Is memory a natural kind? Memory Studies, 4(2), 170-189.
  74. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2010). In defence of gullibility: The epistemology of testimony and the psychology of deception detection. Synthese, 176, 399-427.
  75. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2010). Reliabilism and privileged access. Journal of Philosophical Research, 34, 69-109.
  76. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2008). Testimony as a natural kind. Episteme, 5(2), 180-202.

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Reviews and review essays

  1. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2024). [Review of the book Memory and remembering, by F. De Brigard]. Balkan Journal of Philosophy, 16(2), 195-196.
  2. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2020). [Review of the book Remembering from the outside: Personal memory and the perspectival mind, by C. J. McCarroll]. Argumenta, 5(2), 283-286.
  3. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2019). [Review of the book Memory and technology: How we use information in the brain and the world, by J. R. Finley, F. Naaz, & F. W. Goh]. Memory Studies, 12(3), 349-352.
  4. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2018). [Review of the book Experiencing time, by S. Prosser]. Philosophical Quarterly, 68(272), 642-644.
  5. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2018). [Review of the book Memory and the self: Phenomenology, science and autobiography, by M. Rowlands]. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 177.
  6. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2018). [Episodic and semantic memory and imagination: The need for definitions. Review essay on the book Thinking about human memory, by M. S. Humphreys & K. A. Chalmers]. American Journal of Psychology, 131(1), 99-103.
  7. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2016). [Review of the book Memory: A history, by D. Nikulin]. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 2047.
  8. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2016). [Review of the book Beyond the archive: Memory, narrative, and the autobiographical process, by J. Brockmeier]. Memory Studies, 9(3), 363-365.
  9. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2016). [Review of the book A critical introduction to testimony, by A. Gelfert]. Philosophical Quarterly, 67(266), 198-200.
  10. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2015). [Review of the book The two selves: Their metaphysical commitments and functional independence, by S. B. Klein]. Minds and Machines, 25(1), 119-122.
  11. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2015). [Review of the book The philosophy of metacognition: Mental agency and self-awareness, by J. Proust]. Analysis, 75(2), 349-351.
  12. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2014). [Review essay on the book Individual and collective memory consolidation: Analogous processes on different levels, by T. J. Anastasio, K. A. Ehrenberger, P. Watson, & W. Jiang]. Memory Studies, 7(2), 254-264.
  13. [PDF] [DOI] Michaelian, K. (2010). [Review of the book The metaphysics of memory, by S. Bernecker]. European Journal of Philosophy, 18(4), 623-626.

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