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Book SynopsisThe human world is replete with narratives. Some thinkers have afforded special importance to our capacity to generate narratives, seeing it as enabling us to exercise our imaginations in unique ways. This volume brings together nine original contributions in which the individual authors advance, develop and challenge proposals on narratives.
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors; 1. Narrative and understanding persons Daniel D. Hutto; 2. Framing narratives Gregory Currie; 3. The narrative practice hypothesis: origins and applications of folk psychology Daniel D. Hutto; 4. Dramatic irony, narrative, and the external perspective Peter Goldie; 5. Episodic ethics Galen Strawson; 6. On the distances between literary narratives and real-life narratives Peter Lamarque; 7. Reasons to be fearful: Strawson, death and narrative Kathy Behrendt; 8. Stories, lives, and basic survival: a refinement and defense of the narrative view Marya Schechtman; 9. Self and other: limits of narrative understanding Dan Zahavi; 10. Pathologies in narrative structure Shaun Gallagher.
