TY - GEN ID - cogprints259 UR - http://cogprints.org/259/ A1 - Dennett, Daniel C TI - The Interpretation of Texts, People and Other Artifacts Y1 - 1990/// N2 - I 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. AV - public ER -