Review of Gregory and Michaelian (eds.) Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues

Abstract

Daniel Gregory and Kourken Michaelian’s edited volume Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues is a very welcome development in what has been an area of intersection hitherto neglected in analytic philosophy. The book, the first of its kind, brings together philosophers of memory, dreaming, and of mind more generally, and is organised into three parts. The first explores the topic of remembering dreams, the second on the issue of whether dreaming ever involves memory, and the final part contains various comparisons between dreaming and memory. I here provide an overview of the book then some brief concluding thoughts of my own.