Why Do We Talk To Ourselves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21823205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felicity Deamer (0000-0001-6466-9211, Aston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 425-433 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Philosophy and Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-5158 • E-ISSN: 1878-5166 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13164-020-00487-5 |
| PMID | 34721741 |
| OpenAlex | W3033784386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 12 |
Human beings talk to themselves; sometimes out-loud, other times in inner speech. In this paper, I present a resolution to the following dilemma that arises from self-talk. If self-talk exists then either, (i) we know what we are going to say and self-talk serves no communicative purpose, and must serve some other purpose, or (ii) we don’t know what we are going to say, and self-talk does serve a communicative purpose, namely, it is an instance of us communicating with ourselves. Adopting (i) was the strategy taken by Bart Geurts, who claims that the primary purpose of self-talk is to entrain commitments, and is not (primarily) communicative. While accepting that self-talk can usefully play this role, I criticise the view that entraining commitments is self-talk’s fundamental role. I argue that adopting the view that we are self-blind, at least to a significant degree, means that we can accept that self-talk does play a communicative role
Dilemma · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Self · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
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The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about language
The normativity of gender discourse
| Citations per year | 3.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |