Dennett and Ricoeur on the narrative self
By: Joan McCarthy
Series: Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781591025481
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Naturalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why the narrative self?; title: Contemporary interest in narrative theory; title: Is the self real or illusory?; title: Dennett's brand of naturalism; title: The heterophenomenological method (HM); title: Consciousness and the self; title: The naturalist narrative self; title: Puzzle cases; title: The HM and the narrative self; title: The limitations of Dennett's account; title: The limits of language; title: Epistemological fragility; title: Ontological fragility; title: Naturalism and phenomenology; title: Confronting naturalism; title: Phenomenology and hermeneutics; title: The detour of interpretation; title: Reflexivity; title: The problem of personal identity; title: The number of selves, identity relations and truth; title: The capable self and its narrative identity; title: Narrative identity and aristotelian muthos; title: Narrative recounting of human lives; title: LPSE-identity and literary puzzle cases; title: Certainty, knowledge and attestation; title: Narrative attestation; title: Fact and fiction; title: Narrative attestation; title: The limitations of Ricoeur's account; title: Selective appeals to literary and psychoanalytic discourses; title: Focus on the self-examining self; title: The ontological status of the narrative self; title: The epistemological status of the narrative self; title: The practical self; title: Why the narrative self?