Interpretation : Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Some Cogitations on Interpretations - Peter Machamer -- 2. The Logic of Interpretation - Ruth Lorand -- 3. Interpretation as Cultural Orientation: Remarks on Hegel's Aesthetics - Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert -- 4. Hermeneutics and Epistemology: A Second Appraisal-Heidegger, Kant, and Truth - Paolo Parrini -- 5. Davidson and Gadamer on Plato's Dialectical Ethics - Kristin Gjesdal -- 6. The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts - Nicholas Rescher -- 7. The Explanation of Consciousness and the Interpretation of Philosophical Texts - Catherine Wilson -- 8. On Interpreting Leibniz's Mill - Andreas Blank -- 9. How to Interpret Human Actions (Including Moral Actions) - Christoph Lumer -- 10. Interpretive Practices in Medicine - Kenneth F. Schaffner -- 11. Interpreting Medicine: Forms of Knowledge and Ways of Doing in Clinical Practice - Cornelius Borck -- 12. Concept Formation via Hebbian Learning: The Special Case of Prototypical Causal Sequences - Paul M. Churchland -- 13. Interpreting Novel Objects: The Difficult Case of Hybrid Wines - George Gale -- 14. Classifying Dry German Riesling Wines: An Experiment toward Statistical Wine Interpretation - Ulrich Sautter -- Index.
The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found.Contributors: Andreas Blank, Cornelius Borck, Paul M. Churchland, George Gale, Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, Kristin Gjesdal, Ruth Lorand, Christoph Lumer, Peter Machamer, Paolo Parrini, Nicholas Rescher, Ulrich Sautter, Kenneth F. Schaffner, Catherine Wilson.