ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about autobiographies and an ethics based on them to be a concern within narrative ethics. Autobiographies contain many epistemic weaknesses; they are all epistemically suspected. Exclusive reliance upon patient autobiographies would do more than place narrative ethics on a perilous epistemic foundation. In contrast with autobiography, there is in many joint endeavors or communities no central character. Often, there is no central character in a neighborhood, an academic department, a business, a government agency, or a team. The art of weighing many different and often conflicting stories, and of weaving them together into a reasonably coherent though multivocal account, is the art of the biographer. Listening to multiple sources is epistemically more reliable than exclusive reliance upon any one source. Attending to many voices is almost always morally preferable to listening to only one.
