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‘Obsessed with goals’: Functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans [PDF]
Humans show a strong and early inclination to interpret observed behaviours of others as goal-directed actions. We identify two main epistemic functions that this ‘teleological obsession’ serves: on-line prediction and social learning.
Gergely Csibra
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Teleological interpretation of international investment agreements: From preamble to preamble [PDF]
This article tackles the general issue of the general rule on treaty interpretation envisaged in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties as applied in investment treaty arbitration.
Đajić Sanja V.
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The Realism of Purposes: Schelling and Hegel on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgement
The paper addresses Schelling’s and Hegel’s interpretation of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement (1790), focusing especially on the so-called ‘problem of teleology.’ We reconstruct Schelling’s and Hegel’s reading of the second part of the Critique,
Luca Illetterati, Andrea Gambarotto
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Kant’s Antinomy of Teleology: In Defense of a Traditional Interpretation [PDF]
Kant’s Antinomy of Teleological Judgment is unique in offering two pairs of oppositions, one of regulative maxims, and the other of constitutive principles. Here I defend a traditional interpretation of the antinomy— as proposed, for example, by Stadler (
Hamid, Nabeel
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A teleological interpretation of Bonhoeffer's concept of “A World Come of Age”
AbstractThis paper explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer's concept of “the nonreligious interpretation of biblical terms in a world come of age,” best known from his Letters and Papers from Prison (LPP). As a case study of its possibilities, we will survey South African thinkers who have explored the concept in rapidly changing contexts. Our leading question is
Dankers, Paul, Willerton, Christian
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This article explores the tendency of investment tribunals to resort to teleological interpretation and to the protection and promotion of foreign investments as a standard goal of investment treaties. It further explores how this tendency relates to the
Sanja Djajić
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A Teleological Interpretation of the Applicability of Rhetoric in the Peripatetic Tradition
For Aristotle, the classification of the audience is the basis of distinguishing the main genres of rhetoric. Due to the auditor receiving political, judicial or educational content, there is a distinction into deliberative, judicial, and epideictic ...
Maria Joanna Gondek
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Techniques of the teleological method of interpretation of legal norms
This article considers subjective and objective approaches to the teleological method of interpretation of legal norms. Upon generalization of the thoughts presented in legal literature, the following list of techniques of the teleologicalmethod of interpretation of legal norms was made: 1) consideration of dialectics of the purpose and means of its ...
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Teleological reduction as hermeneutical instrument [PDF]
This paper discusses the teleological reduction, which is one of the most important forms of the objective-teleological interpretation. Then, it points out how this hermeneutic instrument by it's nature and way of application confirms to the fullest ...
Bovan Saša B.
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The Court of Justice of the E.U.: A Contextualist Court
The Court of Justice of the European Union (E.U.) is sometimes labelled “a teleological court”. In this paper I will show why it is a misleading label. Then I will propose a more appropriate label for it – “a contextualist court” – and describe what such
Davor Petrić
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