Interpretation: Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts

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Peter Machamer, Gereon Wolters
University of Pittsburgh Press, 15.01.2014 - 280 Seiten
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. Individual topics include: the general nature of interpretation and its forms; comparing and contrasting interpretation and hermeneutics; culture as interpretation seen through Hegel’s aesthetics; interpreting philosophical texts; methodologies for interpreting human action; interpretation in medical practice focusing on manifestations as indicators of disease; the brain and its interpretative, structured, learning and storage processes; interpreting hybrid wines and cognitive preconceptions of novel objects; and the importance of sensory perception as means of interpreting in the case of dry German Rieslings.

In an interesting turn, Nicholas Rescher writes on the interpretation of philosophical texts. Then Catherine Wilson and Andreas Blank explicate and critique Rescher’s theories through analysis of the mill passage from Leibniz’s Monadology.
 

Inhalt

1 Some Cogitations on Interpretations Peter Machamer
1
2 The Logic of Interpretation Ruth Lorand
16
Remarks on Hegels Aesthetics Annemarie GethmannSiefert
31
A Second AppraisalHeidegger Kant and Truth Paolo Parrini
44
5 Davidson and Gadamer on Platos Dialectical Ethics Kristin Gjesdal
66
6 The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts Nicholas Rescher
91
7 The Explanation of Consciousness and the Interpretation of Philosophical Texts Catherine Wilson
100
8 On Interpreting Leibnizs Mill Andreas Blank
111
9 How to Interpret Human Actions Including Moral Actions Christoph Lumer
130
10 Interpretive Practices in Medicine Kenneth F Schaffner
158
Forms of Knowledge and Ways of Doing in Clinical Practice Cornelius Borck
179
The Special Case of Prototypical Causal Sequences Paul M Churchland
203
The Difficult Case of Hybrid Wines George Gale
220
An Experiment toward Statistical Wine Interpretation Ulrich Sautter
234
Index
261
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