PUBLICATIONS
Robins, S. (forthcoming). A Place for the Memory Trace. In S. Aronowitz & L. Nadel (eds) Memory, Space, and Time. Oxford University Press.
Colaço, D. & Robins, S. (forthcoming). Why have "revolutionary" tools found such purchase in memory science? Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
Kim, B., Robins, S., & Huang, J. (forthcoming). Student Voices on GPT-3, Writing Assignments, and the Future College Classroom.Teaching Philosophy.
Robins, S. & De Brigard, F., co-editors. (forthcoming) "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Locating Representations in the Brain" Synthese, Topical Collection.
Robins, S. & Song, S. (forthcoming). Delusion and Memory. Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Delusion. Routledge.
2023
Robins, S. (available online). Kinding Memory: Commentary on Muhammad Ali Khalidi's "Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences", Mind & Language.
Robins, S. K. (available online). The Role of Memory Science in the Philosophy of Memory. Philosophy Compass. doi
Caravà, M., & Robins, S. (2023). From Phenomenology to Traces: Inferring Memory Mechanisms. Constructivist Foundations, 19, 70–72.
Robins, S. & Afifi, M. (2023). Cueing Involuntary Memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Robins, S.K. (2023). The 21st century engram. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(5), e1653. doi
Robins, S.K. (2023). Implicit Memory. R. Thompson (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Implicit Cognition. Routledge. PDF
Robins, S.K. (2023). The Method of Loci and the Role of Constructive Imagination in Remembering. In A. Berninger & & I. Vendrell-Ferran (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (pp. 230-248). Routledge. PDF
2022
Robins, S.K. (2022). Episodic memory is not for the future. Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Memory, A. Sant’Anna, C. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian (eds.). Routledge (pp. 166–184). PDF
Ménager, D., Choi, D., & Robins, S.K. (2022). Modeling Human Memory Phenomena in a Hybrid Event Memory System. Cognitive Systems Research, 75, 25–35. PDF
Robins, S. & Schulz, A. (2022). Episodic Memory, Simulated Future Planning, and their Evolution. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s13164-021-00601-1 PDF
Brigard, F., & Robins, S.K. (2022). Memory. In B. Young and C. Jennings (eds.) Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introduction. Routledge.
Robins, S.K., Aronowitz, S., & Stolk, A. (2022). Memory Structure and Cognitive Maps. W. Sinnott-Armstrong & F. De Brigard (eds.), Readings in Neuroscience and Philosophy, MIT Press.
2021
Ménager, D., Choi, D., & Robins, S.K. (2021). A Hybrid Theory of Event Memory. Minds and Machines. doi:10.1007/s11023-021-09578-3 PDF
Robins, S.K. (2021). The Failures of Functionalism (for Memory). Estudios de Filosofia, 64, 201-222. LINK
2020
Robins, S. K. (2020). Stable Engrams and Neural Dynamics. Philosophy of Science, 87, 1130-1139. LINK
Robins, S. K. (2020). Defending Discontinuism, Naturally. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11, 469-486. PDF
Robins, S.K. (2020). Mnemonic Confabulation. Topoi, 39, 121-132. doi: 10.1007/s11245-018-9613-x
2019
S. Robins, J. Symons, & P. Calvo, Eds. (2019). Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, 2nd Edition.
Robins, S.K. (2019). Confabulation and Constructive Memory. Synthese, 196, 2135–2151.
2018
Robins, S.K. (2018). Memory and Optogenetic Intervention: Separating the engram from the ecphory. Philosophy of Science, 85 (5), 1078–1089.
Michaelian, K., & Robins, S.K. (2018). The Causal Theory of Memory at 50. New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory. K. Michaelian, D. Debus, & D. Perin, Eds. (pp. 13–32). Routledge.
Robins, S.K. (2018). Confabulation and Epistemic Authority. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Treiman, R., Decker, K., Robins, S., & Ghosh, D. (2018). Parent-child conversations about literacy: A longitudinal, observational study. Journal of Child Language, 45, 511-525.
2017
Robins, S.K. (2017). Contiguity and the Causal Theory of Memory. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 47, 1–19.
Robins, S.K. (2017). Memory Traces. In S. Bernecker and K. Michaelian (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Memory (pp. 76–87). Routledge.
Robins, S.K. (2017). In defense of Vasubandhu’s approach to episodic phenomenology. Australasian Philosophical Review, 1(4), 416–419.
2016
Robins, S.K. (2016). Representing the Past: Memory Traces and the Causal Theory of Memory. Philosophical Studies, 173, 2993–3013.
Robins, S.K. (2016). Optogenetics and the Mechanism of False Memory. Synthese, 193, 1561–1583.
Robins, S. K. (2016). Misremembering. Philosophical Psychology, 29, 432–447.
Robins, S.K. (2016). Review: Memory: A History (D. Nikulin, Ed.). Memory Studies, 9, 358–360.
2015
Robins, S. K. (2015). A Mechanism for Mental Time Travel? A Critical Review of Michael Hasselmo’s How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory. Philosophical Psychology, 28, 903–915.
Treiman, R. Schmidt, J., Decker, K., Robins, S., Levine, S.C. and Demir, Ö. E. (2015). Parents talk about letters with their young children. Child Development, 86, 1406–1418.
2014
Robins, S. K. (2014). Mindreading and tacit knowledge. Cognitive Systems Research, 28, 1–14.
Robins, S. K. (2014). Memory Traces, Memory Errors, and the Possibility of Neural Lie Detection. In Charles T. Wolfe (Ed.) Brain Theory: Essays in Critical NeuroPhilosophy (pp. 171–191). Palgrave MacMillan.
Robins, S. K., Ghosh, D., Rosales, N. and Treiman, R. (2014). Letter knowledge in parent-child conversations: Differences between families differing in socio-economic status. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1–11.
Robins, S., Treiman, R., Rosales, N. (2014). Letter knowledge in parent–child conversations. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 27, 407–429.
2012
Robins, S., Treiman, R., Rosales, N., & Otake, S. (2012). Parent–child conversations about letters and pictures. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25, 2039–2059
2011
Robins, S. K. & Craver, C. F. (2011). No Nonsense NeuroLaw. Neuroethics, 4, 195–203.
2009
Robins, S., & Treiman, R. (2009). Talking about writing: What we can learn from conversations between parents and their young children. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30, 463–484.
Robins, S. K., & Craver, C. F. (2009). Biological Clocks: Explaining with Models of Mechanisms. In J. Bickle (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Robins, S., & Treiman, R. (2009). Early Informal Learning About Writing, in D. Aram & I. Korat (Eds.) Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures. New York: Springer (pp. 17—30).
Doris, J., & Robins, S. (2007). Review of Psychiatry in the Scientific Image by Dominic Murphy. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.