Narrative and Understanding Persons

Daniel Hutto is the Research Leader for Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and was Head of Philosophy from 1999 to 2005. He was a committee member of the National Committee for Philosophy and editor of its newsletter, The Gadfly, and was elected treasurer of the British Philosophical Association in October 2003.

• Notes on contributors; 1. Narrative and understanding persons Daniel D. Hutto; 2. Framing narratives Gregory Currie; 3. The narrative practice hypothesis: origins and applications of folk psychology Daniel D. Hutto; 4. Dramatic irony, narrative, and the external perspective Peter Goldie; 5. Episodic ethics Galen Strawson; 6. On the distances between literary narratives and real-life narratives Peter Lamarque; 7. Reasons to be fearful: Strawson, death and narrative Kathy Behrendt; 8. Stories, lives, and basic survival: a refinement and defense of the narrative view Marya Schechtman; 9. Self and other: limits of narrative understanding Dan Zahavi; 10. Pathologies in narrative structure Shaun Gallagher.