Neville, Robert C.

Recovery of the measure : interpretation and nature / Robert Cummings Neville. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 1989. - xiii, 369 p.; 23 cm. - Axiology of thinking; V.2 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: The problem of truth: Imagination and interpretation-- Myth-- The imperial triumph of interpretation-- Fact and value Philosophical strategies: Catesian mechanism vs. context dependence-- Functionalism-- Hermeneutics-- Pragmatism Truth, an axiological hypothesis: Interpretation-- Value and valuation-- Truht as the carryover of value-- The hypothesis as a theory of truth Participation, the context of a philosophy of interpretation: Biological participation-- Cultural participation-- Semiotic participation-- Purposive participation Identity: The problem of identity-- Identity and metaphysics and cosmology-- Difference, conditional features-- Self-identity, essential features Being and primary cosmology: BEing and ontological ground of reality-- Primary cosmology-- Form, components, actuality and goodness-- A summary theory of reality Value: Historical reflections on "value"-- The "objectivity" of value-- A theory of value-- Form and value Harmony: a theory of components: Claiming and patterned components, extensionality-- Achieved components, actual space-time-- Harmonized components, Cosmos and chaos-- Knowledge of value Modalities of time: Present-- Past-- Future-- The being of time Temporal things, endurance, perishing, and change: Endurance-- Perishing-- Discursive actuality-- The temporal structure of human being Space and motion: Space and extensionality-- Motion-- Dynamics of the space-time field-- Extensionality and the "metaphysics of presence" Causation: Causation, endurance and growth-- Inertial forces, regularities, and systems-- Discursive individuals-- Causation, nature and interpretation Network meaning: On language for interpretation theory-- Rules, networks, and reference-- The development of codes-- Formal structure of network meaning Content meaning: Pragmatism and the linguistic turn-- The structure of content meaning-- Human representations-- Value and deficiency in content meaning Intentionality: Experience as process-- The vector character of experience-- Presentational immediacy-- The temporality of intentional life Interpretation: Purpose-- Context-- Truth-- The world as measure

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Philosophy of nature
Hermeneutics
Metaphysics
Philosophy, American--20th century

BD 581 / .N48