Narrative and Understanding Persons

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511627903

The human world is replete with narratives - narratives of our making that are uniquely appreciated by us. Some thinkers have afforded special importance to our capacity to generate such narratives, seeing it as variously enabling us to: exercise our imaginations in unique ways; engender an understanding of actions performed for reasons; and provide a basis for the kind of reflection and evaluation that matters vitally to moral and self development. Perhaps most radically, some hold that narratives are essential for the constitution of human selves. This volume brings together nine original contributions in which the individual authors advance, develop and challenge proposals of these kinds. They critically examine the place and importance of narratives in human lives and consider the underlying capacities that permit us to produce and utilise these special artifacts. All of the papers are written in a non-technical and accessible style.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of Contributors
pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors
pp vii-x

Narrative and Understanding Persons
pp 1-16

Framing Narratives
pp 17-42

The Narrative Practice Hypothesis: Origins and Applications of Folk Psychology
pp 43-68

Dramatic Irony, Narrative, and the External Perspective
pp 69-84

Episodic Ethics
pp 85-116

On the Distance between Literary Narratives and Real-Life Narratives
pp 117-132

Reasons to be Fearful: Strawson, Death and Narrative
pp 133-154

Stories, Lives, and Basic Survival: A Refinement and Defense of the Narrative View
pp 155-178

Self and Other: The Limits of Narrative Understanding
pp 179-202

Pathologies in Narrative Structures
pp 203-224

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