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Title Interpretation : ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Series Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
Contents Some cogitations on interpretations / Peter Machamer -- The logic of interpretation / Ruth Lorand -- Interpretation as cultural orientation : remarks on Hegel's aesthetics / Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert -- Hermeneutics and epistemology : a second appraisal -- Heidegger, Kant, and truth / Paolo Parrini -- Davidson and Gadamer on Plato's dialectical ethics / Kristin Gjesdal -- The interpretation of philosophical texts / Nicholas Rescher -- The explanation of consciousness and the interpretation of philosophical texts / Catherine Wilson -- On interpreting Leibniz's Mill / Andreas Blank -- How to interpret human actions (including moral actions) / Christoph Lumer -- Interpretive practices in medicine / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- Interpreting medicine : forms of knowledge and ways of doing in clinical practice / Cornelius Borck -- Concept formation via Hebbian learning : the special case of prototypical causal sequences / Paul M. Churchland -- Interpreting novel objects : the difficult case of hybrid wines / George Gale -- Classifying dry German Riesling wines : an experiment toward statistical wine interpretation / Ulrich Sautter
Analysis " ... revised versions of presentations given at the eighth meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held in Pittsburgh ... October 2, 2008-October 5, 2008." --Preface
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" ... revised versions of presentations given at the eighth meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held in Pittsburgh ... October 2, 2008-October 5, 2008"--Preface
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Interpretation (Philosophy) -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Science -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Wolters, Gereon
Machamer, Peter K
Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (8th : 2008 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
LC no. 2010283861
ISBN 9780822977568
0822977567