In the CAVE: An ethics podcast, is back with Season 3 of the show. Join your hosts, Professor Paul Formosa and Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, along with guest host Associate Professor Mark Alfano, from the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (or CAVE) as they explore a range of philosophical topics focused on the question of how we can live well as moral agents in an ethically complex world.

One way that individuals make sense of personal identity is through telling our stories, or self-narratives. We can link a range of events as our story – such as where we were born, family celebrations, past illnesses or schools we attended. On some accounts, the self is constituted by the contents of our self-narratives, and it is through narratives that we know our own actions, traits and experiences. But if this is the case, what counts as a self-narrative, what role does autobiographical memory play in our self-narratives, and what tools can we use to bolster those memories? Join host Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers and guest Dr Regina Fabry to discuss current philosophical approaches to memory, narrative and identity.

In the podcast we discuss Regina’s paper on this topic: Fabry, R. E. (2023). Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self-narratives. Mind & Language, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12453. You may also be interested in Regina’s paper on self-narrative: Fabry, R.E. (2023) What is self-narrative? (E-pub ahead of print) Inquiry. 10.1080/0020174X.2023.2177338

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