Depiction plays as important a role as language in our culture and communication, but its function is still not well understood. This volume of specially written essays by leading philosophers investigate the nature and value of depiction and its role in our understanding of the world. They set the agenda for the philosophy of depiction. INDICE: Catharine Abell and Katerina Bantinaki: INTRODUCTION; 1: John Kulvicki: Pictorial Diversity; 2: Dominic McIver Lopes: Picture This: Demonstrative Reference Through Pictures; 3: Catharine Abell: The Epistemic Value of Photographs; 4: John Dilworth: Depictive Seeing and Double Content; 5: Katerina Bantinaki: Pictorial Perception as Twofold Experience; 6: Robert Hopkins: Inflected Pictorial Experience: Its Treatment and Significance; 7: Bence Nanay: Inflected and Uninflected Experience of Pictures; 8: John H. Brown: Seeing Things in Pictures; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958596-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés