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Recovery of the Measure Interpretation and Nature

Neville Robert Cummings
Heftet / 1989 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780791400999
Publisert
1989-08-15
Utgiver
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State University of New York Press
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508 gr
Høyde
229 mm
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152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Antall sider
369

Forfatter
Neville Robert Cummings

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Robert Cummings Neville is the author of New Essays in Metaphysics; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; The Tao and the Daimon; and Reconstruction of Thinking; all published by SUNY Press.

Recovery of the Measure Interpretation and Nature

Neville Robert Cummings
Heftet / 1989 / Engelsk
Neville Robert Cummings
Heftet / 1989 / Engelsk
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"Neville's systematic, self-conscious employment of Peirce's theory of the sign as a means of locating the project of a philosophy of nature within the context of contemporary hermeneutical thinking is extremely fortunate. By so doing Neville has opened his thought to a ready assessment by continental thinkers and has placed himself near the center of contemporary philosophic debate. Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions, there is good reason to believe that this work will shortly become the focus of genuine and widespread discussion. With the publication of this latest installment of his Axiology of Thinking, Neville emerges as one of the strongest voices in American philosophy." — David L. Hall

"The world is as we interpret it." Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation.The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.
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Foreword Introduction Division One The World As Measure Preliminary Remarks 1 The problem of Truth I. Imagination and Interpretation II. Myth III. The Imperial Triumph of Interpretation IV. Fact and Value 2 Philosophical Strategies I. Cartesian Mechanism vs. Context Dependence II. Functionalism III. Hermeneutics IV. Pragmatism 3 Truth: An Axiological Hypothesis I. Interpretation II. Value and Valuation III. Truth as the Carryover of Value IV. The Hypothesis as a Theory of Truth 4 Participation: The Context of a Philosophy of Interpretation I. Biological Participation II. Cultural Participation III. Semiotic Participation IV. Purposive Participation Division Two Philosophic Foundations For A New Common Sense: An Axiological Metaphysics Preliminary Remarks 5 Identity I. The Problem of Identity II. Identity in Metaphysics and Cosmology III. Difference: Conditional Features IV. Self-identity: Essential Features 6 Being and Primary Cosmology I. Being and the Ontological Ground of Reality II. Primary Cosmology III. Form, Components, Actuality, and Goodness IV. A Summary Theory of Reality 7 Value I. Historical Reflections on "Value" II. The "Objectivity" of Value III. A Theory of Value IV. Form and Value 8 Harmony: A Theory of Components I. Claiming and Patterned Components: Extensionality II. Achieved Components: Actual Space-Time III. Harmonized Components: Cosmos and Chaos IV. Knowledge of Value Division Three Philosophy of Nature: A Cosmology of Participation Preliminary Remarks 9 Modalities of Time I. Present II. Past III. Future IV. The Being of Time 10 Temporal Things: Endurance, Perishing, and Change I. Endurance II. Perishing III. Discursive Actuality IV. The Temporal Structure of Human Being 11 Space and Motion I. Space and Extensionality II. Motion III. Dynamics of the Space-Time Field IV. Extensionality and the "Metaphysics of Presence" 12 Causation I. Causation, Endurance, and Growth II. Inertial Forces, Regularities, and Systems III. Discursive Individuals IV. Causation, Nature, and Interpretation Division Four Truth and Interpretation: A Measure Recovered Preliminary Remarks 13 Network Meaning I. On Language for Interpretation Theory II. Rules, Networks, and Reference III. The Development of Codes IV. Formal Structure of Network Meaning 14 Content Meaning I. Pragmatism and the Linguistic Turn II. The Structure of Content Meaning III. Human Representations IV. Value and Deficiency in Content Meaning 15 Intentionality I. Experience as Process II. The Vector Character of Experience III. Presentational Immediacy IV. The Temporality of Intentional Life 16 Interpretation I. Purpose II. Context III. Truth IV. The World as Measure Notes Bibliography Index
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"Neville's systematic, self-conscious employment of Peirce's theory of the sign as a means of locating the project of a philosophy of nature within the context of contemporary hermeneutical thinking is extremely fortunate. By so doing Neville has opened his thought to a ready assessment by continental thinkers and has placed himself near the center of contemporary philosophic debate. Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions, there is good reason to believe that this work will shortly become the focus of genuine and widespread discussion. With the publication of this latest installment of his Axiology of Thinking, Neville emerges as one of the strongest voices in American philosophy." — David L. Hall

"The world is as we interpret it." Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation.The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.
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Foreword Introduction Division One The World As Measure Preliminary Remarks 1 The problem of Truth I. Imagination and Interpretation II. Myth III. The Imperial Triumph of Interpretation IV. Fact and Value 2 Philosophical Strategies I. Cartesian Mechanism vs. Context Dependence II. Functionalism III. Hermeneutics IV. Pragmatism 3 Truth: An Axiological Hypothesis I. Interpretation II. Value and Valuation III. Truth as the Carryover of Value IV. The Hypothesis as a Theory of Truth 4 Participation: The Context of a Philosophy of Interpretation I. Biological Participation II. Cultural Participation III. Semiotic Participation IV. Purposive Participation Division Two Philosophic Foundations For A New Common Sense: An Axiological Metaphysics Preliminary Remarks 5 Identity I. The Problem of Identity II. Identity in Metaphysics and Cosmology III. Difference: Conditional Features IV. Self-identity: Essential Features 6 Being and Primary Cosmology I. Being and the Ontological Ground of Reality II. Primary Cosmology III. Form, Components, Actuality, and Goodness IV. A Summary Theory of Reality 7 Value I. Historical Reflections on "Value" II. The "Objectivity" of Value III. A Theory of Value IV. Form and Value 8 Harmony: A Theory of Components I. Claiming and Patterned Components: Extensionality II. Achieved Components: Actual Space-Time III. Harmonized Components: Cosmos and Chaos IV. Knowledge of Value Division Three Philosophy of Nature: A Cosmology of Participation Preliminary Remarks 9 Modalities of Time I. Present II. Past III. Future IV. The Being of Time 10 Temporal Things: Endurance, Perishing, and Change I. Endurance II. Perishing III. Discursive Actuality IV. The Temporal Structure of Human Being 11 Space and Motion I. Space and Extensionality II. Motion III. Dynamics of the Space-Time Field IV. Extensionality and the "Metaphysics of Presence" 12 Causation I. Causation, Endurance, and Growth II. Inertial Forces, Regularities, and Systems III. Discursive Individuals IV. Causation, Nature, and Interpretation Division Four Truth and Interpretation: A Measure Recovered Preliminary Remarks 13 Network Meaning I. On Language for Interpretation Theory II. Rules, Networks, and Reference III. The Development of Codes IV. Formal Structure of Network Meaning 14 Content Meaning I. Pragmatism and the Linguistic Turn II. The Structure of Content Meaning III. Human Representations IV. Value and Deficiency in Content Meaning 15 Intentionality I. Experience as Process II. The Vector Character of Experience III. Presentational Immediacy IV. The Temporality of Intentional Life 16 Interpretation I. Purpose II. Context III. Truth IV. The World as Measure Notes Bibliography Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780791400999
Publisert
1989-08-15
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
508 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
369

Forfatter
Neville Robert Cummings

Om bidragsyterne

Robert Cummings Neville is the author of New Essays in Metaphysics; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; The Tao and the Daimon; and Reconstruction of Thinking; all published by SUNY Press.

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