Title Statements
- Full title :Interpretation and explanation in the human sciences / David K. Henderson.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1993.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
- Place of Publication:Albany
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1993.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 293 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0791414051, 9780791414057, 079141406X, 9780791414064
- oclc:ocm25629133
- LC Classification:H61
- Dewey Decimal:300
Table of Contents
1. Interpretation and Explanation: Claims and Concerns -- 2. Standard Accounts of Interpretation and the Principle of Charity. 2.1. Standard Accounts of Interpretation. 2.1.1. The Holism of Interpretation. 2.1.2. A Fundamental Principle of Charity. 2.2. Common Refinements to the Principle of Charity. 2.2.1. Modifications Related to Stages of Interpretation. 2.2.2. Modifications Related to Types of Error -- 3. A Better Codification of the Constraints on Interpretation. 3.1. The Primacy of the Principle of Explicability: The Central Argument. 3.2. Two Concrete Illustrations. 3.2.1. The Treatment of Observation Sentences. 3.2.2. The Treatment of Truth-Functions. 3.3. Elaboration. 3.3.1. Empirical Adequacy. 3.3.2. Rules of Thumb. 3.3.3. Solving the Problem of Irrationality -- 4. On the Supposed A Priori Status of Minimal Rationality. 4.1. The View that Rationality is Constitutive of Intentional States. 4.1.1. A Priori Truths and "The Subject" as a Conceptual Matter.
4.1.2. Needed Perspective: An Extensional Notion of "The Subject" 4.2. On an Argument from Measurement. 4.3. On the Argument from Charity in Interpretation. 4.4. Is Minimal Rationality Preponderant Rationality: What is Ce…
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