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