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Morality and Interpretation: Commentary on Jonathan Glover's Alien Landscapes?
Author(s) -
Kennett Jeanette
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12209
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , interpreter , morality , agency (philosophy) , alien , epistemology , identity (music) , sociology , focus (optics) , process (computing) , psychology , law , philosophy , political science , aesthetics , computer science , linguistics , optics , politics , citizenship , programming language , operating system , physics
What is required of the interpreter of disordered minds and what can we learn from the process? Jonathan Glover's book focuses on human interpretation and its role in psychiatry. His hope is that a more careful and sensitive exploration of minds that are very different from our own, will assist us to answer a range of important questions about human agency, identity and responsibility. In this commentary I will focus on the process and purpose of interpretation and expand on some of the moral issues that arise out of the interpretive challenges posed by mental disorders.