Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- NARRATIVE AND 'FACT' -- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- 1 Storytelling in Economics -- Bibliography -- 2 Narrative Theories and Legal Discourse -- Introduction -- Narrative in the Rhetorical Presentation of a Case -- Narrative and the Assessment of Probabilities -- Narrative and Plausibility: The Modern fury Trial -- The Narrative of Psychological Processes -- Narrative as an Epistemological/Semiotic Conception -- The Narrativization of Pragmatics in the Common Law Trial -- Law Construction: The Role of Narrative in Judicial Decision-Making -- Narrative in the Justification of Legal Decisions -- Narrative Competence, Narrative Negotiation and Truth -- Notes -- 3 Self-knowledge as Praxis: Narrative and Narration in Psychoanalysis -- Depth Hermeneutics: Representation or Interpretation? -- Narrative Reason: Theory and Therapy -- Emotion, Thought and Therapy -- A Passion for Critique -- The Causality of Fate and Tragedy -- Notes -- PHYSICAL SCIENCE -- 4 Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse -- Truth, Faith and Speech-acts -- Scientific Writing and Speaking as Narrative -- Who Are the Good Guys? -- Signs of Moral Corruption: the 'Bad Guys' -- Strict Assessment and the Moral Order -- 'Untouched by Human Hand' -- Bibliography -- 5 Making a Discovery: Narratives of Split Genes -- The First Reports -- Actors -- Sequences -- Popularizations -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- NARRATIVE AND 'FICTION' -- PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE -- 6 Narrative and Invention: The Limits of Fictionality -- Preliminaries -- A Literary Example -- Some Aims Outlined -- The Challenge from Metaphysics and Literary Theory -- Schematic Arguments Towards the 'Fictionalizing' of Narrative -- Fictionality in Object and Description -- Fictions in Philosophy.

Logical Fictions -- Epistemological Fictions -- Make-believe Fictions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Ill Locutions -- Bibliography -- 8 How Primordial is Narrative? -- On the Pertinence of Curiosity -- Fiction and Feeling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Slaughtering the Subject: Literature's Assault on Narrative -- Notes -- Index.