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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 · In The Constitution of Selves, Marya Schechtman says, “[A] person’s identity is created by a self-conception that is narrative in form.” (Schechtman 1996, 96) A narrative self-conception hangs together; it has a plot; it “interprets individual episodes in terms of their place in the unfolding story.” (Schechtman 1996, 97) Persons are ...
- Lynne Rudder Baker
- lrbaker@philos.umass.edu
- 2016
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
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.
Jan 1, 2001 · The narrative self, however, is nothing substantially real. Rather, it is an empty abstraction. Specifically, Dennett defines a self as an abstract ‘center of narrative gravity,’ and likens it to the theoretical fiction of the center of gravity of any physical object.
- Shaun Gallagher
- 2000
Jun 28, 2012 · The narrative sense of self is separate from questions of personal identity — one’s narrative sense of self as is conceived here it really has no direct connection with the metaphysical question of one’s numerical identity over time, although the narrative sense of self presupposes it.
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understand the claims that our identities or selves are narrative in structure and that we experience life in a narrative manner? To begin with, we must note that on the narrative view this experience of our lives and selves need not be articulated or conscious: We may not know it, or experience it as such, but our selves are narrative in
