RT Journal Article
T1 Understanding real and fictional persons: narrative negotiations seen through cognitive poetics
A1 Muñoz Corcuera, Alfonso
AB Narrative theories of personal identity have traditionally taken literary characters as models to better understand how our identities are constituted through the narratives of our lives. However, there have been several recent criticisms of these comparisons, showing that philosophers of personal identity paid no attention to the nature of literary characters, and consequently, these philosopher’s comparisons were under-motivated. In the present article, I rely on a cognitive framework to define literary characters. From that point of view, I assert that it is fruitful to compare ourselves with literary characters to understand the role that the narratives told by others about ourselves play in the constitution of our own personal identities.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0556-8641
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115623
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115623
LA eng
NO Muñoz-Corcuera, A. (2016). Understanding Real and Fictional Persons: Narrative Negotiations Seen Through Cognitive Poetics. Philosophical Papers, 45(1–2), 241–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2016.1187482
NO Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 mar 2026