Fictive Narrative Philosophy

Michael Boylan is professor of philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of 34 books and 138 essays covering literature, ethics/political philosophy, and ancient philosophy of science. He has been an invited lecturer at major universities in 14 countries on 5 continents. He as served on national advisory committees in the U.S.A. and has been a fellow at think tanks such as the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution.

• Part I: The Structure of the Traditional ParadigmChapter One: Narrative Fiction as Philosophically Interpreted in the Ancient Western WorldChapter Two: Narrative Fiction as Philosophically Interpreted in the Modern and Contemporary Western WorldPart II: The Structure of the New ParadigmChapter Three: What makes an Artifact Philosophy?Chapter Four: Literature as PhilosophyChapter Five: The Special Logic of Fictive Narrative PhilosophyChapter Six: Constructional DevicesChapter Seven: How do we Judge Fictive Narrative Philosophy?Chapter Eight: When Should we use Direct Discourse Philosophy and when Fictive Narrative Philosophy?Chapter Nine: How Might Fictive Narrative Philosophy Change the Academy?Appendix I: First Order Metaethical Principles: My own Philosophical Work on Ethics and Personhood Theory as a First Step for ‘Ethics & Fictive Narrative Philosophy’Appendix II: My own work in Fictive Narrative Philosophy

"Boylan makes an important contribution to the philosophy of literature by using his idea of the personal worldview to understand how we engage with fictive narrative philosophy and offering an explanation as to why that is pedagogically valuable . . . [He] offers a new conception of philosophical writing that has implications for how we understand the nature of argument and argumentation." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews