Interpreting Nature
Title | Interpreting Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Treanor |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0823254275 |
Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
Interpreting Nature
Title | Interpreting Nature PDF eBook |
Author | I. G. Simmons |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134862229 |
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true? Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.
Interpretive Perspectives
Title | Interpretive Perspectives PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Beck |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2010-01-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1879931362 |
This collection of essays represents some of the best work of two significant, contemporary voices in the field of interpretation, including original pieces written for this publication and reprints of articles that have appeared in National Association for Interpretation publications spanning three decades. Whether you are new to the field or an experienced interpreter, you will be inspired by Larry Beck and Ted Cable's unique ability to find interpretive lessons in tangential fields, beauty in the everyday, and hope in the future
The Nature of Legal Interpretation
Title | The Nature of Legal Interpretation PDF eBook |
Author | Brian G. Slocum |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2017-05-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 022644516X |
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless—we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of our most fundamental legal texts. Should a judge feel confident in defining common words in the texts without the aid of a linguist? How is the meaning communicated by the text determined? Should the communicative meaning of texts be decisive, or at least influential? To fully engage and probe these questions of interpretation, this volume draws upon a variety of experts from several fields, who collectively examine the interpretation of legal texts. In The Nature of Legal Interpretation, the contributors argue that the meaning of language is crucial to the interpretation of legal texts, such as statutes, constitutions, and contracts. Accordingly, expert analysis of language from linguists, philosophers, and legal scholars should influence how courts interpret legal texts. Offering insightful new interdisciplinary perspectives on originalism and legal interpretation, these essays put forth a significant and provocative discussion of how best to characterize the nature of language in legal texts.
Interpreting Nature
Title | Interpreting Nature PDF eBook |
Author | James L. Larson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Interpretation for the 21st Century
Title | Interpretation for the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Beck |
Publisher | Sagamore Publishing |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
This book is uplifting and inspiring as it enhances the reader's understanding of how to compellingly interpret our cultural and natural legacy. The 15 guiding principles set forth in this book will assist anyone who works in parks, forests, wildlife refuges, zoos, museums, historic areas, nature centres, and tourism sites to more effectively, and joyously, conduct their work. This book, updated and in its second edition, has been used internationally and has been translated into Chinese. It serves as inspirational reading for students in environmental education, forestry, conservation, history, communications, outdoor recreation, and park management.
The Interpretation of Nature
Title | The Interpretation of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Religion and science |
ISBN |