1998-04-05Z2011-03-11T08:53:46Zhttp://cogprints.org/id/eprint/259This item is in the repository with the URL: http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/2591998-04-05ZThe Interpretation of Texts, People and Other ArtifactsI want to explore four different exercises of interpretation: (1) the interpretation of texts (or hermeneutics), (2) the interpretation of people (otherwise known as "attribution" psychology, or cognitive or intentional psychology), (3) the interpretation of other artifacts (which I shall call artifact hermeneutics), (4) the interpretation of organism design in evolutionary biology--the controversial interpretive activity known as adaptationism.Daniel C Dennett