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Interpretation : ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.

Other author/creatorMachamer, Peter K.
Other author/creatorWolters, Gereon.
Other author/creatorPittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (8th : 2008 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,
Descriptionvii, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science. ^A355215
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.
General notePublication date from phone call to publisher.
General note" ...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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010283861
ISBN9780822943921 (alk. paper)
ISBN0822943921 (alk. paper)

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