180053 VO-L Subject, mode, force (2017S)

How are we aware of ourselves and the contents of our minds and how do we express this awareness in speech? What is the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness? Are they independent or interdependent and if the latter, how? What do subjects do when they e.g. assert, hypothesize, order and promise something? How are theoretical forms of intentionality – perception, and thought and speech that aims to represent facts, what is the case – related to practical forms of intentionality – action and practical thought and speech that represents goals and directs our actions? Is the structure of theoretical inference and theoretical rationality parallel to the structure of practical inference and rationality, or are there fundamental asymmetries? For example, are there practical forms of deduction, abduction and induction? Do the subjects of perception, action, thought and speech have to be individuals, or can they also include collective subjects ranging from joint attention dyads to corporations and nation states?