Galen Strawson

AGAINST NARRATIVITYG alen StrawsonAbstractI argue against two popular claims. The first is a descriptive, empiri-cal thesis about the nature of ordinary human experience: eachof us constructs and lives a narrative ..this narrative isus, ouridentities (Oliver Sacks); self is a perpetually rewritten story ..in the end, we becomethe autobiographical narratives by which we tell about our lives (Jerry Bruner); we are all virtuoso try to make all of our material cohere into a single goodstory. And that story is our autobiography. The chief fictional that autobiography is one s self (Dan Dennett). Thesecond is a normative, ethical claim: we ought to live our lives narratively, or as a story; a basic condition of making sense of ourselves is that we grasp our lives in a narrative and have anunderstanding of our lives as an unfolding story (Charles Taylor).

AGAINST NARRATIVITY Galen Strawson Abstract I argue against two popular claims. The first is a descriptive, empiri-cal thesis about the nature of ordinary human experience: ‘each

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