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Equal Access To Justice: Three Interpretations
This Chapter analyzes three interpretations of what it is that people claim, when they claim equal access to justice for all: equal legal protection,...
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Does science need intersubjectivity? The problem of confirmation in orthodox interpretations of quantum mechanics
Any successful interpretation of quantum mechanics must explain how our empirical evidence allows us to come to know about quantum mechanics. In this...
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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Interpretation plays a central role in using scientific models to explain natural phenomena: Meaning must be bestowed upon a model in terms of what it...
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“Interpretations of Nature” in Polanyi’s Science, Faith and Society
In Science, Faith and Society, Michael Polanyi speaks about various ‘interpretations of nature’. I discuss the items that he has in mind, identify...
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Propositional Forms of Judgemental Interpretations
In formal semantics based on modern type theories, some sentences may be interpreted as judgements and some as logical propositions. When...
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Interpreting philosophical interpretations of paraconsistency
In this paper, we critically discuss the idea of a ‘philosophical interpretation’ of paraconsistent logics. We do so by considering the epistemic...
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The Musical Work of Art and Its Interpretations: Gadamer’s Critique of Ingarden
This chapter examines Gadamer’s critique of the aesthetic theory of the phenomenologist Roman Ingarden regarding the relationship between musical...
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From Volitional Self-Contradiction to Moral Deliberation: Between Kleingeld and Timmons’s Interpretations of Kant’s Formula of Universal Law
My aim in this note is to shed light on ways of interpreting Kant’s Formula of Universal Law (FUL), by looking at relevant similarities and...
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Moral Psychology of the Confucian Heart-Mind and Interpretations of Ceyinzhixin
Many comparative philosophers discuss ceyinzhixin 惻隱之心 (the Confucian heart-mind of pity and compassion) and its moral psychological nature to...
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“Maybe this is Speculative Now” Negotiating and Valuing Interpretations in Qualitative Research
Interpretation groups, which meet on a regular basis for jointly analysing qualitative data, are well-established in sociology and related...
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How the Two Interpretations Im**e on Hume’s Nominalism
In this chapter, I continue to explore the consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Science of Man. Here, I consider how the two...
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Interpretations of Spinoza in early Russian Marxism
The roots of the controversial readings of Spinoza during Soviet times date back to the history of Russian Marxism. Spinoza was a most influential...
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(Mis-)Interpretations of the Theory of Relativity – Considerations on How They Arise and How to Analyze Them
During Einstein’s lifetime, the special and general theories of relativity were quite frequently interpreted by philosophers. Most of these...
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Implications of Model-Based Uncertainty: Scientific Responses and Philosophical Interpretations
There are a multitude of sources of uncertainty in the science of climate change, many of which are related to the extensive use of climate models to...
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Implications of Model-Based Uncertainty: Scientific Responses and Philosophical Interpretations
There are a multitude of sources of uncertainty in the science of climate change, many of which are related to the extensive use of climate models to...
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No-Thing and Causality in Realistic Non-Standard Interpretations of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function: Ex Nihilo Aliquid?
It has been shown that quantum mechanics in its orthodox interpretation violates four different formulations of causality principle endowed with...
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The Influence of Spiritual Traditions on the Interplay of Subjective and Normative Interpretations of Meaningful Work
This paper argues that the principles of spiritual traditions provide normative ‘standards of goodness’ within which practitioners evaluate...
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Chronic pain as a blind spot in the diagnosis of a depressed society. On the implications of the connection between depression and chronic pain for interpretations of contemporary society
One popular description of current society is that it is a depressed society and medical evidence about depression’s prevalence may well make such an...
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Pratibhā as Vākyārtha? Bhartr̥hari’s Theory of “Insight” as the Object of a Sentence and Its Early Interpretations
This essay offers a fresh interpretation of Bhartr̥hari’s concept of “insight” ( pratibhā ), and of its identification as the object of a sentence ( vākyārtha...
