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Narrative And Understanding Persons, Daniel Hutto
Narrative And Understanding Persons, Daniel Hutto
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Our world is replete with narratives—narratives of our making that are uniquely appreciated by us. This can hardly be denied, certainly if by ‘narratives’ we have in mind only those of the purely discursive variety—i.e. those complex representations that relate and describe the course of some unique series of events, however humble, in a coherent but selective arrangement.1 Our capacity to create, enjoy and benefit from narratives so defined—be they factual or fictive—surely sets us apart from other creatures. Some, impressed by the prominence of this phenomenon in the traffic of human life, have been tempted to deploy that famous …
The Narrative Practice Hypothesis: Origins And Applications Of Folk Psychology, Daniel Hutto
The Narrative Practice Hypothesis: Origins And Applications Of Folk Psychology, Daniel Hutto
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Psychologically normal adult humans make sense of intentional actions by trying to decide for which reason they were performed. This is a datum that requires our understanding. Although there have been interesting recent debates about how we should understand ‘reasons’, I will follow a long tradition and assume that, at a bare minimum, to act for a reason involves having appropriately interrelated beliefs and desires.
Narrative And Media: Helen Fulton With Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet And Anne Dunn, Melbourne, 2005., Helen Caple
Narrative And Media: Helen Fulton With Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet And Anne Dunn, Melbourne, 2005., Helen Caple
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Book review
Narrative and Media Helen Fulton, with Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet, and Anne Dunn, Melbourne, 2005.
The book Narrative and Media should be of great interest to students and scholars of Media Studies alike. Coming from a post-structuralist perspective, the book interrogates the ideological implications of narrative strategies across the major forms of the media, and offers a clear and cogent explanation of how readers are positioned as consumers of the media. With the commodification of the media becoming more and more prevalent, media scholars need to develop a reliable set of theoretical tools rigorous enough to unpack how …