Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives—our past, present, and
future—in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in …

How do participating in a work of fiction and imagining a fictional world intertwine with the
reader's life? I develop an account that explores the relation between fiction reading and the …

A narrative theory of the self offers explanations of the holistic relationship between a mental
content and other mental contents, as well as the relationship between an experience and …

Many countries' constituencies are populated by polarised groups with sharply contrasting
political loyalties and convictions, which appear to be becoming more and more extreme …

abstract This paper presents two ideas in connection with the notion of empathic access to
one's past, where this notion is understood as consisting of memories of one's past from the …

Self-reflexive or egocentric concern has been taken to present a serious problem for
reductionist and eliminativist metaphysical accounts of personal identity. Philosophers have …

An analysis of the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity at work in standard introductions to
philosophy reveals an oversight of self-knowledge and tracing the move from a common …

In his Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life, Jeff McMahan defends what he calls
the embodied mind view of identity, and then puts forward several arguments in support of …

In my dissertation I bring insights about what and how we learn from the imagined fantastic
scenarios found in literary fictions and in bioethics to bear on our understanding of the use of …

Narrative thinking plays a central part in our engagement with our own past and future. In
this essay, I want to address the question of how the narrative sense of self relates to other …