Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition, edited by Douglas R. Hochstetler, analyzes the relationship between endurance sports-such as running, cycling, and swimming-and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors enter into dialogue with writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Henry David Thoreau, and John Dewey, as well as more recent scholars such as John McDermott and bell hooks. Examining American philosophical themes informs issues in endurance sport, and the experiential nature of endurance sport helps address philosophical issues and explain philosophical themes in American philosophy. The chapters bear witness to the fact that philosophy is not limited to abstract notions such as justice, truth, happiness, and so forth, but intersects with and has a bearing on our human endeavors of work and play. Furthermore, the themes centrally related to the American philosophical tradition align closely with the challenges and experiences present and faced by runners, cyclists, swimmers, and endurance athletes in general.

Folk psychology refers to our everyday practice of making sense of actions, both our own and those of others, in terms of reasons. This volume, which is a special issue of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies", brings together new work by scholars from a range of disciplines (anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy) whose aim is to clarify, develop and challenge the claim that folk psychology may be importantly - perhaps even constitutively - related to narrative practices. This book is part of a wider project by its editor, Daniel D. Hutto, Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, exploring this central issue of consciousness studies. Table of Contents includes: Folk Psychology As Narrative Practice (Daniel D. Hutto); Storied Minds: Narrative Scaffolding for Folk Psychology (David Herman); Narrative Practices and Folk Psychology: A Perspective from Developmental Psychology (Katherine Nelson); The Plot Thickens: What Children's Stories Tell Us about Mindreading (Michelle Scalise Sugiyama); What's the Story Behind 'Theory of Mind' and Autism?(Matthew K. Belmonte); Talk and Children's Understanding of Mind (William Turnbull, Jeremy I.M. Carpendale and Timothy P. Racine); Objects In a Storied World: Materiality, Normativity, Narrativity (Chris Sinha); Evidentiality and Narrative (Jill de Villiers and Jay Garfield); and, 'Hearing Is Believing': Amazonian Trickster Myths as Folk Psychological Narratives (Jonathan D. Hill). It also includes: Joint Attention in Apes and Humans: Are Humans Unique?(David A. Leavens and Timothy P. Racine); Telling Stories Without Words (Kristin Andrews); Two Problems of Intersubjectivity (Shaun Gallagher); Mirror In Action (Corrado Sinigaglia); The Narrative Practice Hypothesis and Externalist Theory Theory: For Compatibility, Against Collapse (Marc Slors); In Defence of (Model) Theory Theory (Heidi Maibom); and, There Are No Folk Psychological Narratives (Matthew Ratcliffe).

The human world is replete with narratives - narratives of our making that are uniquely appreciated by us. Some thinkers have afforded special importance to our capacity to generate such narratives, seeing it as variously enabling us to: exercise our imaginations in unique ways; engender an understanding of actions performed for reasons; and provide a basis for the kind of reflection and evaluation that matters vitally to moral and self development. Perhaps most radically, some hold that narratives are essential for the constitution of human selves. This volume brings together nine original contributions in which the individual authors advance, develop and challenge proposals of these kinds. They critically examine the place and importance of narratives in human lives and consider the underlying capacities that permit us to produce and utilise these special artifacts. All of the papers are written in a non-technical and accessible style.