Our linguistic communication often takes the form of creating texts. In this paper, we propose that creating texts or ‘texting’ is a form of joint action. We examine the nature and evolution of this joint action. We argue ...

In the Republic, Plato seems to advocate the banning of most extant poetry, because of its corrupting effect on the soul. A central claim in the next section will be that thumos as a specific module or capacity of the soul, ...

This research seeks to improve our understanding of how intrinsic motivation is instantiated. Three motivation theories, flow theory, self-determination theory, and empowerment theory, have informed our understanding of ...

The article discusses translation as a critical approach to how we see culture. According to the anthropologist Marianne Gullestad culture is part of mechanism of exclusion when it is linked to identity or “sameness”. ...

The paper describes the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writing of text alternatives as it manifests itself in his manuscripts. Decided, undecided and cancelled alternatives are distinguished. Moreover, Wittgensteinian ...

Oppgaven er et historisk og filosofisk studium av oppkomsten av utilregnelighet som et problem i etableringen av den moderne strafferetten i Norge.

Außer der kurzen Besprechung eines Logikbuches (RC 1913), der Logisch-Philosophischen Abhandlung (TLP 1921, publ. 1922; deutsch-englisch als Tractatus logico-philosophicus 1922), dem Wörterbuch für Volksschulen (WB 1926), ...

Interventionism is a theory of causation with a pragmatic goal: to define causal concepts that are useful for reasoning about how things could, in principle, be purposely manipulated. In its original presentation, Woodward’s ...

I denne masteravhandlingen har jeg presentert og analysert fysikalisme med det mål å finne en formulering som er både nødvendig og tilstrekkelig, slik at den uttrykker minimal fysikalisme. Jeg ender opp med en formulering ...