Narrative Knowing

Paris, France

Paris Diderot University

(now The University of Paris)

June 23 - 27, 2014   

The aim of this event was to contribute to the progress of interdisciplinary research on narrative by bringing together scholars in a broad range of disciplines – psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, feminist and gender studies, education, medicine, biology, law, theology, etc. – to reflect on the issue of the sometimes contested epistemic powers of narrative.

Featured topics

  • What are the relations between narrative and knowledge?

  • How do forms of knowledge inform and produce narratives?

  • How do narratives communicate or produce knowledge? Which ones?

  • What is the nature of narrative knowledge as opposed to other forms of knowledge (common or spontaneous knowledge of reality, scientific knowledge, philosophical ‘wisdom’)?

  • Does narrative constitute a privileged mode of knowledge or is it an epistemologically opaque means of pursuing the truth?

Organizers

  • Brian Schiff. The American University of Paris.

  • Sylvie Patron.The University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7. 

Outcomes

Keynote Speakers

  • Jacques Bouveresse

  • Philippe Carrard

  • Donald Polkinghorne

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