Interpretation
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Interpretation

Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts

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Interpretation

Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts

About this book

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 from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series, 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. Some Cogitations on Interpretations - Peter Machamer
  4. 2. The Logic of Interpretation - Ruth Lorand
  5. 3. Interpretation as Cultural Orientation: Remarks on Hegel’s Aesthetics - Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert
  6. 4. Hermeneutics and Epistemology: A Second Appraisal—Heidegger, Kant, and Truth - Paolo Parrini
  7. 5. Davidson and Gadamer on Plato’s Dialectical Ethics - Kristin Gjesdal
  8. 6. The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts - Nicholas Rescher
  9. 7. The Explanation of Consciousness and the Interpretation of Philosophical Texts - Catherine Wilson
  10. 8. On Interpreting Leibniz’s Mill - Andreas Blank
  11. 9. How to Interpret Human Actions (Including Moral Actions) - Christoph Lumer
  12. 10. Interpretive Practices in Medicine - Kenneth F. Schaffner
  13. 11. Interpreting Medicine: Forms of Knowledge and Ways of Doing in Clinical Practice - Cornelius Borck
  14. 12. Concept Formation via Hebbian Learning: The Special Case of Prototypical Causal Sequences - Paul M. Churchland
  15. 13. Interpreting Novel Objects: The Difficult Case of Hybrid Wines - George Gale
  16. 14. Classifying Dry German Riesling Wines: An Experiment toward Statistical Wine Interpretation - Ulrich Sautter
  17. Index