Making Sense

A Theory of Interpretation

By: Paul Thom

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22 February 2000

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15.5 x 22.9 x 1.2

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Critics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of ''interpreter'' for themselves. Scientists do not so readily describe themselves in this way. But is the formulation of explanatory hypotheses in science so different from the interpretive work of artists? Making Sense recognizes that whenever interpretation occurs there may be a plurality of competing successful interpretations. It offers a philosophical theory that views the interpretive enterprise as an attempt to make sense of things by representing them in ways that can be accommodated within various significance-systems.

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This is a very lucid and precise text, which is richly textured with illuminating and intriguing discussions of examples from painting, theatre, music, opera and the sciences. I would recommend it as a text for undergraduate courses on Interpretation --and I would have all teachers read chapter 3!--Jennifer A. McMahon "Australasian Journal of Philosophy "

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