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The unbearable dispersal of being: Narrativity and personal identity in borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe disturbances in a subject’s sense of identity. Persons with BPD suffer from...
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Narrativity and medicine: some critical reflections
During the last three decades there has been a wave of interest in narrative and narrativity in the humanistic and the social sciences. This...
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Saying no (to a story): personal identity and negativity
The concept of narrativity and narrative identity has two birth certificates: it is linked to the phenomenological tradition—beginning with Arendt’s...
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Reconsideration of Musical Gesture as a Musical Event in a Narrative Discourse
The purpose of this study is to reconsider musical narrativity and gesture in the semiotic sense through debate among the former studies, taking the...
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Replies to Timmerman and Gorman
In my reply to the thoughtful comments of Timmerman and Gorman, I take up, and further explore, some main questions, including: Can a horribly...
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Social Cognition and Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Mindreading to Narratives
In this chapter I will work on the crucial role of semiotic narratives for social cognition. I will try to stress the key position that a semiotic...
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Persistence Narrativism and the Determinacy of Personal Identity
We have a strong intuition that personal identity is a determinate relationship. Parfit famously challenged this intuition. In this paper I explain...
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Moral foundations theory and the narrative self: towards an improved concept of moral selfhood for the empirical study of morality
Within the empirical study of moral decision making, people’s morality is often identified by measuring general moral values through a questionnaire,...
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Précis of Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition
This précis gives an overview of my book Philosophy, Literature, and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition which is the subject of a book symposium...
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Data identity: privacy and the construction of self
This paper argues in favor of a hybrid conception of identity. A common conception of identity in datafied society is a split between a digital self...
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When the Poem Must Come to an End: Reply to Amzallag’s Commentary on the Coexistence of Technopoiesis and Technopraxis
Our recent paper examines the relevancy of the latest dual conception of technopoiesis and technopraxis, the former denoting a situation of the...
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Constructing the Past: the Relevance of the Narrative Self in Modulating Episodic Memory
Episodic memories can no longer be seen as the re-activation of stored experiences but are the product of an intense construction process based on a...
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Self-Identity and Narrative Imagination
Self-identity is not constituted by more or less accurate facts or truth about ourselves, but is configured presentation to ourselves and others. It...
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Rorty’s Kind of Writing: Style, Genre, and Rhetoric
It is widely agreed that Rorty’s enduring influence is due not only to his ideas but also to how he presented them in writing. This chapter is the...
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Replies to Vendrell Ferran, Piercey, Schechtman, and Collins
i) Íngrid Vendrell Ferran’s defence of the ‘experiential view’ and her related conception of ‘radical neo-cogntivism’, ii) Robert Piercey’s view of...
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What is ‘Modern’? How to Renew Musical Heritages or the Innovators and Reformers of Music History
This study aims at answering the following basic questions: why do we have a history of music? Why does music change? Why does it not remain the same...
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Understanding and explanation. Paul Ricœur and human geography
The aim of my paper is to put Ricœur’s philosophy in dialogue with human geography. There are at least two good reasons to do so. The first concerns...
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Incite Artifacts: Human-Centered Design in Healthcare
This essay explores the hidden assumptions in the way healthcare organizations approach the topics of innovation and digital health. After a brief...