A Story to Remember: Narrativity, Memory and the Self

In my dissertation, I offer an empirically informed theory of narrativity, a psychological capacity that plays a critical role in the recent philosophical debates about the self, memory and consciousness. To do this, I develop a teleological account of narrative explanation, explain the role of narratives in memory formation and offer a model of the functions that narratives play in human lives. Building on this foundation, I then consider the Dennett-Velleman debate over the narrative self