Introduction -- I. Narrative, Philosophy and Life -- Aristotle on Narrative Intelligence” Silvia Carli -- Philosophy, Agency and Narratology, A. Speight -- The Whole Story: Personal Identity, Narrative, and Biology, M. Schechtman -- Dostoevsky And The Literature Of Process: What Open Time Looks Like, G.S. Morson -- Narrative Thinking And Sorting Out The Mess Inside, P. Goldie -- We Live Beyond Any Tale That We Happen To Enact, G. Strawson -- Narrative Form And The 'Meaning' Of A Life, J. Landy -- Philosophical Insight, Emotion And Popular Fiction, N. Carroll -- II. Philosophy, Narrative and Life Writing: Philosophical Biography and Biographical Philosophy -- Reading Descartes' Life and Writings, D. Clarke -- Writing the Lives of the Philosophers: Reflections on Spinoza (and Others), S. Nadler -- Hume's Own History, A. Garrett -- Romantic Interest, Contexts, and Narratives: Writing a Biography of Margaret Fuller, C. Capper -- A Hard Case: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Biography, A. La Vopa -- The (Ir)relevance of Biography, M. Kuehn -- Philosophical Life Portraits, A. Rorty -- III. Narrative and Philosophy across Cultures. - The Discontinuity of Human Action: Narrative and Interpretation in Early China, M. Puett -- "And we shall compose a poem to establish these truths: The Power of Narrative Art in South Asian Literary Cultures, A. Monius -- The Empty Circle: Aspects of Narrative in Mahayana Buddhist Thought, M.D. Eckel. .