6. Historical Interpretation without Ontology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Interpretation in Cultural Practices
7. 1. Rightness and Reasons in Musical lntrepretation 13
8. 2. Cultural Practices and the Ideals of Interpretation: Singularism and Multiplism 38
9. 3. Imputational Interpretation in Art, Poetry, Persons, and Cultures 66
10. 4. Imputation and the Comparison of Interpretations 93
11. Part II. Interpretation without Ontology
12. 5. Objects-of- Interpretation and Their Indeterminacy 119
13. 6. Historical Interpretation without Ontology 131
14. 7. Praxial Ideality without Ontological Realism 146
15. Conclusion 162
16. Appendix: From an Interview with a Luo Medicineman 167
17. Index 171