Self’s puzzle: critical notes about narrativity

Abstract

The concept of narrativity has often been used among philosophers of mind that claim to critically understand the issue of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The point is to think of it as a narrative web that unfolds throughout life. The narrator character we call ‘self’. Daniel Dennett and David Velleman are two prominent proponents of this proposition. This article aims to briefly expose the nearest points between these authors, but mainly discuss an important moment of distance between them, especially about the idea of a narrative core module, introduced by Velleman and criticized by Dennett. As contrary approach it will be finally opposed another proposal about personal identity, such as denial of narrativity present in Galen Strawson works.