Thinking and Talking About the Self

Another great lecture, via UCtelevision. Essentially, Perry is in this lecture looking at the concepts of I (proximal self) and me (distal self), which was first explored in detail by William James (see this paper for an explanation of James's theory in context of Dialogical Self Theory).

John Perry investigates two quite different ways of thinking of ourselves; one, that we express with the first person, that is a special way of considering ourselves; the other, for which we use our name, that allows us to think of ourselves more or less as others do. He explores these two different ways of thinking, and talking, about ourselves, and draws some conclusions about the structure of thought and language.

Tags: Psychology, Philosophy, Self, self concept, UCtelevision, John Perry, I and Me, distal self, proximal self, William James