creators_name: Dennett, Daniel C type: preprint datestamp: 1998-04-05 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:46 metadata_visibility: show title: The Interpretation of Texts, People and Other Artifacts subjects: phil-logic subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public abstract: 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. date: 1990 date_type: published refereed: TRUE citation: Dennett, Daniel C (1990) The Interpretation of Texts, People and Other Artifacts. [Preprint] document_url: http://cogprints.org/259/1/intrptxt.htm