Table of Contents

 Introduction.- I. Narrative, Philosophy and Life.- Aristotle on Narrative Intelligence” Silvia Carli.- Philosophy, Agency and Narratology, A. Speight.- The Whole Story: Personal Identity, Narrative, and Biology, M. Schechtman.- Dostoevsky And The Literature Of Process: What Open Time Looks Like, G.S. Morson.- Narrative Thinking And Sorting Out The Mess Inside, P. Goldie.- We Live Beyond Any Tale That We Happen To Enact, G. Strawson.- Narrative Form And The 'Meaning' Of A Life, J. Landy.- Philosophical Insight, Emotion And Popular Fiction, N. Carroll.- II. Philosophy, Narrative and Life Writing: Philosophical Biography and Biographical Philosophy.- Reading Descartes' Life and Writings, D. Clarke.- Writing the Lives of the Philosophers: Reflections on Spinoza (and Others), S. Nadler .- Hume's Own History, A. Garrett.- Romantic Interest, Contexts, and Narratives: Writing a Biography of Margaret Fuller, C. Capper.- A Hard Case: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Biography, A. La Vopa.- The (Ir)relevance of Biography, M. Kuehn.- Philosophical Life Portraits, A. Rorty.- III. Narrative and Philosophy across Cultures. - The Discontinuity of Human Action: Narrative and Interpretation in Early China, M. Puett.- "And we shall compose a poem to establish these truths: The Power of Narrative Art in South Asian Literary Cultures, A. Monius.- The Empty Circle: Aspects of Narrative in Mahayana Buddhist Thought, M.D. Eckel.​