1st Edition
Fictive Narrative Philosophy How Fiction Can Act as Philosophy
Part I: The Structure of the Traditional Paradigm
Chapter One: Narrative Fiction as Philosophically Interpreted in the Ancient Western World
Chapter Two: Narrative Fiction as Philosophically Interpreted in the Modern and Contemporary Western World
Part II: The Structure of the New Paradigm
Chapter Three: What makes an Artifact Philosophy?
Chapter Four: Literature as Philosophy
Chapter Five: The Special Logic of Fictive Narrative Philosophy
Chapter Six: Constructional Devices
Chapter 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
Biography
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.
"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
