ABSTRACT
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of philosophical theories of memory: traditional archival views and contemporary constructive views. The archival view claims that memory is a purely passive device for registering, storing and reproducing representations of particular past experiences. Proponents of constructivism argue that the archival view is at odds with what science tells us about the workings of memory. Whether memory is said to imply truth and what is meant by the notion of 'truth in memory' crucially depends on which of these camps one belongs to. This chapter explains and motivates the truth condition on memory. It discusses positions whereupon memory reports need not be completely true but only true to a degree. The chapter also explores the authenticity condition on memory. It deals with the question of how to assess someone's recollection of an event accurately depicts the event or his initial representation of the event.
