Fiction and Fictions: On Ricoeur on the route to the self

South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (4):329-335 (2006)
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Abstract

In reaching his narrative view of the self in Oneself as Another, Paul Ricoeur argues that, while literature offers revealing insights into the nature of the self, the sort of fictions involving brain transplants, fission, and so on, that philosophers often take seriously do not (and cannot). My paper is a response to Ricoeur's charge, contending that the arguments Ricoeur rejects are not flawed in the way he suggests, and that his own arguments are sometimes guilty of the very charges he lays at the door of his opponents

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Simon Beck
University of the Western Cape

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