ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for a proceduralist view of the causal connection required by episodic memory. It takes for granted recent criticisms of the causal theory but claims that the causal connection necessary to episodic memory is different from the one targeted by these criticisms. Basically, it contends that the causal relation relates the construction processes at work respectively at the initial experience and at the remembering experience, the former bringing about procedural features of the latter that are available for a subpersonal detection and interpretation. The proposed defense of the causal theory thus contends that the relevant causal connection is procedural and dispenses with any representational causal continuity between past experience and current remembering. The chapter further shows that this proceduralist view of the causal connection neatly accounts for the phenomenology of episodic memory in terms of a metacognitive feeling of pastness.
