This volume offers original essays exploring what 'fictive
narrative philosophy' might mean in the research and teaching of
philosophy. The first part of the book presents theoretical essays
that examine Boylan's recent books: Teaching Ethics with Three
Philosophical Novels and Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How
Literature can Act as Philosophy. The second and third part offer
essays on how Boylan executes his theory in the practice within his
novels from his two series De Anima and Arche. The book clearly
shows the unique aspects of the fictive narrative philosophy
approach. First, it makes story-telling accessible to wide
audiences. Second, story-telling techniques invoke devices that can
set out complicated existential problems to the reader that offer
an additional approach to thorny problems through the presentation
of lived experience. Third, the discussion of these devices is a
way to explore philosophical problems in a way that many can profit
from. The book concludes with an essay in which Boylan responds to
the critical challenges set out in Part One and the practical
criticism set out in Parts Two and Three. Boylan addresses the key
claims made by his objectors and defends his position. He engages
with the authors in the way his theory is matched against his
actual novels. This is useful reading for both philosophers and
professors of literature teaching introductory as well as
upper-level courses in the fields of philosophy, literature and
criticism.
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