Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan's Narrative Fiction

Introduction to the Text (Wanda Teays).- Part I: Theory - Preface to Part One: Reflections on Reshaping Philosophy and the Emergence of Un-Ordered Pairs,  Michael Boylan.- Chapter 1.  Boylan's Fictional Narratives and the Reshaping of Philosophy, (Jeffrey R. Di Leo).- Chapter 2. How Can Fiction Contribute to Critical Race Theory? (Tina Fernandes Botts).- Chapter 3. Philosophy Plays: A Neo-Socratic Way of Performing Public Philosophy, (Edward H. Spence).- Chapter 4.  Processing Fiction, (Peter Tagore Tan).-Part II: The De Anima Novels -Preface to Part Two: What is the Aim of the De Anima Novels? (Michael Boylan).- Chapter 5.  The Extinction of Desire, Narrative Identity and the Good Life,   (Robert Paul Churchill).- Chapter 6.  Rainbow Curve, Moral Change, Racial Justice, (Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez).- Chapter 7. To the Promised Land:  Ethics, Religion and the Power of Storytelling,  (Virginia L. Warren).- Chapter 8. Free Will vs. Fate in Maya: An Irish-American History, (Wanda Teays).- Part III: The Arch Novels - Preface to Part Three:  What is the Aim of The Arch Novels   (Michael Boylan).- Chapter 9.  Naked Reverse and The Downfall of the Cartesian-Self: Introducing a Feminist Characterization of Who We Are, (Deborah S. Mower).- Chapter 10.  Revolutionary Agency, Gender, and Integrity: The Story of T-Rx and Mary Taylor,   (Per Bauhn).- Chapter 11. The Long Fall of the Ball from the Wall: Reflections on Child Maltreatment, (Simona Giordano).- Part IV: Using Fictive Narrative Philosophy to Teach Philosophy.- Chapter 12. Fictive Narrative Philosophy as Necessary in the Classroom,  (Alan Tomhave).- Chapter 13. Narrative For a Contemporary Citizenship,  (Eddy M. Souffrant).- Part V: Boylan Responds to his Commentators.- Chapter 14. A Reply to my Colleagues, (Michael Boylan).

Wanda Teays is a Professor of Philosophy at Mount Saint Mary's University In Los Angeles. She is the author of Doctors and Torture; Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach; Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies;  and Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society. She is editor of:  Analyzing Violence Against Women;  and Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age (co-edited with Michael Boylan); Global Bioethics & Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd ed. (co-edited with Alison Dundes Renteln); and Bioethics, Justice & Health Care  (co-edited with Laura M. Purdy).