The Galilean explanatory style is characterized by the search for the underlying structure of phenomena, the positing of "deep" explanatory principles, and a view of the relation between theory and data, on which the search for "crucial data" is of primary importance. In this paper, I trace the dynamics of adopting the Galilean style, focusing on the science of episodic memory. I argue that memory systems, such as episodic and semantic memory, were posited as underlying competences producing the observable phenomena of memory. Considered in idealized isolation from other systems, episodic memory was taken to underlay the ability of individuals to remember events from their personal past. Yet, in reality, memory systems regularly interact, standing in many-to-many relations to actual memory tasks and experiences. Upon this backdrop, I explore a puzzle about the increasing prominence of the notion of autonoetic consciousness in Tulving's theory of episodic memory. I argue that, contrary to widespread belief, the prominence is not best explained by the purported essential link between autonoetic consciousness and episodic memory. Rather, it is explained by the fact that autonoetic consciousness, hypothesized to uniquely accompany episodic retrieval, was considered a source of crucial data, predictable only from theories positing a functionally distinct episodic memory system. However, with the emergence of a new generation of theories, positing wider memory systems for remembering and imagination, the question of the relation between episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness has been reopened. This creates a pressing need for de-idealization, triggering a new search for crucial data.

伽利略解释风格的特点是寻找现象的底层结构、提出“深层”解释原理、看待理论与数据之间的关系，其中寻找“关键数据”是首要的。在本文中，我追踪了采用伽利略风格的动态，重点关注情景记忆科学。我认为记忆系统，例如情景记忆和语义记忆，被认为是产生可观察的记忆现象的潜在能力。考虑到与其他系统理想化的隔离，情景记忆被认为是个人记住个人过去事件的能力的基础。然而，实际上，记忆系统经常相互作用，与实际的记忆任务和经历存在多对多的关系。在此背景下，我探讨了图尔文情景记忆理论中自主意识概念日益突出的难题。我认为，与普遍的看法相反，这种突出现象并不能最好地用所谓的自主意识和情景记忆之间的本质联系来解释。相反，它是通过这样一个事实来解释的：自主意识被认为是唯一伴随情景检索的，被认为是关键数据的来源，只能从假设功能不同的情景记忆系统的理论中预测。然而，随着新一代理论的出现，为记忆和想象提出了更广泛的记忆系统，情景记忆和自主意识之间的关系问题被重新提出。这就产生了去理想化的迫切需要，