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Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Dimensions of Inquiry -- PART I: PERSPECTIVES FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES -- 2 Speaker Intent and Convention -- Linguistic Meaning and Pragmatics -- Vagueness and Indeterminacy: Three Topics in the Philosophy of Language -- 3 Literary Interpretation, Performance Art, and Related Subjects -- 4 Religious Interpretation -- 5 General Theories of Interpretation -- 6 Starting from the Bottom: Informal Instructions -- PART II: INTERPRETING LEGALLY AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS -- 7 The Law of Agency -- 8 Wills -- 9 Contracts -- 10 Judicial Alterations of Textual Provisions: Cy Pres and Relatives -- 11 Conclusion and a Comparison -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Behavior Research -- Business Law -- Comparative Law -- Ecology and Law -- Economic Law -- Environmental Law -- International Law -- Law and Society -- Law Library Science -- Law Reviews -- Migration and Law -- Policy and Law -- Social Science -- Society and Law -- Transnational Law -- Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice -- Additional Research -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Path of Analytical Realism -- 1.1 On "Realism" and "Scepticism" in Jurisprudence -- 1.2 Overview -- 1.3 Conceptual Analysis -- Chapter 2: Interpretation, Truth, and the Logical Forms of Interpretive Discourse -- 2.1 A Haunting Problem -- 2.2 Legal Interpretation -- 2.2.1 Interpretation Proper to a Practical Purpose -- 2.2.1.1 Textual Interpretation -- 2.2.1.2 Meta-Textual Interpretation -- 2.2.2 Interpretation Proper to a Cognitive Purpose -- 2.2.2.1 Methodological Conjectures -- 2.2.2.2 Ideological Conjectures -- 2.2.2.3 Methodological Innovation -- 2.2.3 Interpretation Improper -- 2.2.3.1 Interpretation-Detection -- 2.2.3.2 Interpretation-Prediction -- 2.2.3.3 Interpretation-Prescription -- 2.3 Truth -- 2.3.1 Empirical Truth -- 2.3.2 Pragmatic Truth -- 2.3.3 Systemic Truth -- 2.3.3.1 Deductive Normative Systems -- 2.3.3.2 Rhetorical Normative Systems -- 2.3.4 Taking Stock -- 2.4 The Problem Unravelled -- 2.5 Truth and the Nature of Judicial Interpretation -- Chapter 3: Interpretive Games -- 3.1 Big and Small(er) Problems -- 3.2 The Challenge of Linguistic Theories -- 3.2.1 The Word-Meaning Theory -- 3.2.2 The Sentence-Meaning Theory -- 3.3 The Failure of Linguistic Theories -- 3.4 Interpretive Games -- 3.4.1 Simple v. Complex Games -- 3.4.2 Open v. Well-Designed Games -- 3.4.3 Cognitive v. Practical Games -- 3.4.4 Privileged Rule-Making v. Universal Rule-Making Games -- 3.4.5 External Rule-Making v. Contextual Rule-Making Games -- 3.4.6 No-Reinterpretation, Unlimited Reinterpretation, Limited Reinterpretation Games -- 3.5 The Conversation Game -- 3.5.1 The Principle and Maxims of Conversation -- 3.5.2 The Principle and Maxims of Conversational Interpretation -- 3.6 The Statutory Interpretation Game -- 3.7 A Concluding Note -- Chapter 4: Taking Context Seriously -- 4.1 A Kantian Reproach.