ABSTRACT
This chapter begins to address why interpretations of scientific theories are important, why interpretations of artworks are significant, which implications do they have for the ontology of fiction and the ontology of the sciences by contrasting different accounts of interpretation in the sciences and in the arts, and also examines the respective roles of interpretation. It argues that in many instances involving visual evidence in the sciences, the particular form of imagination that is required is precisely the one that is in place in order to make sense of key aspects of one's experience in the arts. Matters of interpretation in both the sciences and the arts often involve ontological issues. Perceptual imagining, as involved in the interpretation of scientific results, also plays an important role in the sciences. Perceptual imagining provides a particular form of interpretation, a particular way of seeing the actor as the character the image on the film represents.
