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Interpretation ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts

Title
Interpretation [electronic resource] : ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2010].

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Additional Authors
  • Machamer, Peter K.
  • Wolters, Gereon.
  • Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (8th : 2008 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Description
1 online resource (vii, 266 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Uniform Title
  • Interpretation (Online)
  • Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
Subject
  • Interpretation (Philosophy) > Congresses
  • Science > Philosophy > Congresses
Note
  • Publication date from phone call to publisher.
  • " ...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 (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2010283861
OCLC
ssj0000605918
Title
Interpretation [electronic resource] : ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.
Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2010].
Series
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Machamer, Peter K.
Wolters, Gereon.
Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (8th : 2008 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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