On Interpretative Activity
A Peircian Approach to the Interpretation of Science, Technology and the Arts
Biographical note
Noel E. Boulting BA. Birkbeck College, University of London (1972); M.Sc. London School of Economics (1975); Ac. Dip. Institute of Education, University of London (1967). Author of To Be or Not to Be Philosophical (Peterborough: Upfront Pub., 2003).
Readership
All those interested in the writings of Charles S. Peirce and Joseph Margolis, aesthetics, pragmaticism, semiotics, the philosophies of technology and science, as well as those concerned with different kinds of interpretative activity.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On Using the Term ‘Science’
2. Making Sense of Science and Technology
3. The Status of Works of Art
4. Art in Society
5. Within the Interpretative Process
6. The Problem of Reification
Appendix: Objections to the Iconic Conception of Artworks
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. On Using the Term ‘Science’
2. Making Sense of Science and Technology
3. The Status of Works of Art
4. Art in Society
5. Within the Interpretative Process
6. The Problem of Reification
Appendix: Objections to the Iconic Conception of Artworks
Bibliography
Index
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