ISBN : 9780199585960
Pictures are representations that depict their objects. Although depiction plays as important a role as language in contemporary culture and communication, its function is relatively poorly understood. This volume of specially written essays by leading philosophers offers to set the agenda for the philosophy of depiction. It addresses a wide range of philosophical issues, concerning the nature and value of depiction, the role of our perceptual processes in interpreting pictures, and the role of depiction in everyday communication.
INTRODUCTION
1. Pictorial Diversity
2. Picture This: Demonstrative Reference Through Pictures
3. The Epistemic Value of Photographs
4. Depictive Seeing and Double Content
5. Pictorial Perception as Twofold Experience
6. Inflected Pictorial Experience: Its Treatment and Significance
7. Inflected and Uninflected Experience of Pictures
8. Seeing Things in Pictures
Index