This essay defends the claim that episodic remembering is a mental action by arguing that episodic remembering and sensory- or experience-like imagining are of a kind in a way relevant for agency. Episodic remembering is a type of imaginative project that involves the agential construction of imagistic-content and that aims at (veridically) representing particular events of the personal past. Neurally intact adults under normal conditions can token experiential memories of particular events from the personal past (merely) by intending or trying to. An agent’s ability to actively remember depends not only on her being able to determine that some memory event occurs but on her ability to construct the relevant scene at will as well. I claim that the ability to guide construction with respect to imagistic-content is distinctive feature of a subset of active imagining. Episodic remembering is of a kind with that subset of active imagining by being a process of agential construction of imagistic-content, in this case, scene construction that aims at (veridically) representing the personal past. Agential scene construction in the context of remembering is the agent’s exploring her personal past as a highly circumscribed region of modal space.

本文通过论证情景记忆和感觉或体验类想象在某种程度上与能动性相关，来捍卫情景记忆是一种心理活动的主张。情景记忆是一种富有想象力的项目，涉及意象内容的代理构建，旨在（真实地）代表个人过去的特定事件。在正常情况下，神经完整的成年人可以（仅仅）通过有意或尝试来表征个人过去特定事件的经验记忆。智能体主动记忆的能力不仅取决于她能够确定某些记忆事件的发生，还取决于她随意构建相关场景的能力。我认为指导意象内容构建的能力是主动想象的一个子集的显着特征。情景记忆是一种主动想象的子集，是意象内容的代理构建过程，在这种情况下，场景构建旨在（真实地）代表个人过去。记忆背景下的代理人场景构建是代理人探索她个人的过去作为模态空间的高度限制的区域。