Interpretation
Subtitle: ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts
By: edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters
Contributors: Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (8th : 2008 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Series: Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science; Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780822943921
Subjects: Science; Philosophy; Congresses; Interpretation (Philosophy)
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some cogitations on interpretations / Peter Machamer; title: The logic of interpretation / Ruth Lorand; title: Interpretation as cultural orientation : remarks on Hegel's aesthetics / Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert; title: Hermeneutics and epistemology : a second appraisal - Heidegger, Kant, and truth / Paolo Parrini; title: Davidson and Gadamer on Plato's dialectical ethics / Kristin Gjesdal; title: The interpretation of philosophical texts / Nicholas Rescher; title: The explanation of consciousness and the interpretation of philosophical texts / Catherine Wilson; title: On interpreting Leibniz's Mill / Andreas Blank; title: How to interpret human actions (including moral actions) / Christoph Lumer; title: Interpretive practices in medicine / Kenneth F. Schaffner; title: Interpreting medicine : forms of knowledge and ways of doing in clinical practice / Cornelius Borck; title: Concept formation via Hebbian learning : the special case of prototypical causal sequences / Paul M. Churchland; title: Interpreting novel objects : the difficult case of hybrid wines / George Gale; title: Classifying dry German Riesling wines : an experiment toward statistical wine interpretation / Ulrich Sautter.