Name: Making Sense: A Theory of Interpretation
Author: Paul Thom (Author)
ISBN: 9780847697823

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Making Sense: A Theory of Interpretation

Author(s): Paul Thom (Author)

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2000
Language: English
Print length: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 0847697827
ISBN-13: 9780847697823

Book Description

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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Thom’s framework is important and along the right lines. Anyone interested in interpretation should give careful consideration to these views. ― British Journal of Aesthetics

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

This book is suitable for those with an interest in the performing arts and are looking for a general theory that provides a conceptual framework by which to assess different performative interpretations of a piece of work. ― Philosophy in Review

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

About the Author

Paul Thom is a philosopher-musician and adjunct professor in the School of Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Making Sense: A Theory of Interpretation

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