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Dennett and Ricoeur on the narrative self
- Title
- Dennett and Ricoeur on the narrative self / Joan McCarthy.
- Author
- McCarthy, Joan.
- Publication
- Amherst, NY : Humanity Books, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 298 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.
- Contents
- Why the narrative self? -- Contemporary interest in narrative theory -- Is the self real or illusory? -- Dennett's brand of naturalism -- The heterophenomenological method (HM) -- Consciousness and the self -- The naturalist narrative self -- Puzzle cases -- The HM and the narrative self -- The limitations of Dennett's account -- The limits of language -- Epistemological fragility -- Ontological fragility -- Naturalism and phenomenology -- Confronting naturalism -- Phenomenology and hermeneutics -- The detour of interpretation -- Reflexivity -- The problem of personal identity -- The number of selves, identity relations and truth -- The capable self and its narrative identity -- Narrative identity and aristotelian muthos -- Narrative recounting of human lives -- LPSE-identity and literary puzzle cases -- Certainty, knowledge and attestation -- Narrative attestation -- Fact and fiction -- Narrative attestation -- The limitations of Ricoeur's account -- Selective appeals to literary and psychoanalytic discourses -- Focus on the self-examining self -- The ontological status of the narrative self -- The epistemological status of the narrative self -- The practical self -- Why the narrative self?
- Call Number
- JFD 08-2894
- ISBN
- 9781591025481
- 1591025486
- LCCN
- 2007011183
- OCLC
- 86172891
- vendor 2007011183
- Author
- McCarthy, Joan.
- Title
- Dennett and Ricoeur on the narrative self / Joan McCarthy.
- Imprint
- Amherst, NY : Humanity Books, 2007.
- Series
- Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-2894