PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION AND THEORY OF NARRATIVE

The aim of this paper is to apply some recent results from the philosophy of
action in the theory of narrative. The intuitive idea is that narrative discourse may
be conceived of as a form of natural action description, whereas a philosophy or,
more specifically, a logic of action attempts to provide formal action descriptions.
It is expected that, on the one hand, narrative discourse is an interesting empirical
testing ground for the theory of action, and that, on the other hand, formal action
description may yield insight into the abstract structures of narratives in natural
language. It is the latter