This article critically examines the recent turn to narratives as tools for identity construction
and identity analysis. While self and sense of self will be used largely as synonyms, the …

In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially,
though there is little agreement about what a" life-narrative" might be. In connecting …

Background: Truth-telling toward terminally ill patients is a challenging ethical issue in
healthcare practice. However, there are no existing ethical guidelines or frameworks …

There is nothing as unfathomable and painful as the loss of a loved one, another
irreplaceable human being, leaving an unfillable void in one's life. No life can be fully lived …

Recent evidence from the neurosciences and cognitive sciences provides some support for
a narrative theory of self-understanding. However, it also suggests that narrative self …

Ricoeur defines attestation as the" assurance of being oneself acting and suffering" or as
the" assurance–the credence and the trust–of existing in the mode of selfhood." In this …

In Chapter 1, I distill a basic notion of integrity from existing discussions to answer the
question,“What is integrity?”. My analysis provides a “bare bones” account that captures the …

The article analyzes the first person shot, a stylistic figure resulting from a radical
transformation of the classical point of view or subjective shot within the contemporary media …

Daniel Dennett is one of America's most important and influential contemporary
philosophers. He has made considerable contributions to the philosophy of mind and to …

This essay is concerned with the epistemological complications of the interface between
psychoanalysis and “scientific” disciplines and methodologies—in particular, with respect to …