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Mar 11, 2022 · This essay develops a theory of identities, selves, and ‘the self’ that both explains the sense in which selves are narratively constituted and also explains how the self relates to a person's individual autobiographical identity and to their various social identities.
Mar 14, 2014 · The common assumption is that in a self-narrative, the author and the protagonist are one and the same. On Dennett’s intriguing view, the author and the protagonist come apart: the author is the brain, and the protagonist—the self—is a fictional character constructed by the brain.
- Lynne Rudder Baker
- lrbaker@philos.umass.edu
- 2016
This article examines the narrative approach to self found in philosophy and related disciplines. The strongest versions of the narrative approach hold that both a person's sense of self and a person's life are narrative in structure, and this is called the hermeneutical narrative theory.
May 10, 2014 · What does exist, is the narrative self. This self has no material extension in the world, but exists as a fiction, in the same way as fictive characters like Sherlock Holmes exist, or theoretical abstractions such as centers of narrative gravity (Dennett 1992, 103–104).
- Priscilla Brandon
- p.brandon@ftr.ru.nl
- 2016
Jul 1, 2014 · Minds, or selves, or persons are “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions” (T 1.4.6.4/252). “They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind” (T 1.4.6.4/253); a “succession of perceptions … constitutes [a] mind or thinking principle” (T 1.4.6.18/260).
Moral Selves, Basic Persons, and Selfhood as a Narrative – Marya Schechtman on the Meaning of Stories in Human Life. What makes a person the same from one moment to another? How does one’s life become a whole? How do we become moral agents? These questions have intrigued philosopher Marya Schechtman (b. 1960) throughout her career.
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Our identities are created by a vast web of stories, as is our relationship with reality. We understand and identify things by placing them in the stories we tell about them: just like selves, things do not really exist outside of stories. We are caught in this narrative web because we cannot exist outside of it.
