Picture, Image and Experience: A Philosophical Inquiry - Couverture rigide

Hopkins, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521582598 ISBN 13 : 9780521582599

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book proposes and defends an answer to the philosophical question of how pictures represent.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How do pictures represent? In this book Robert Hopkins casts new light on an ancient question by connecting it to issues in the philosophies of mind and perception. He starts by describing several striking features of picturing that demand explanation. These features strongly suggest that our experience of pictures is central to the way they represent, and Hopkins characterizes that experience as one of resemblance in a particular respect. He deals convincingly with the objections traditionally assumed to be fatal to resemblance views, and shows how his own account is uniquely well placed to explain picturing's key features. His discussion engages in detail with issues concerning perception in general, including how to describe phenomena that have long puzzled philosophers and psychologists, and the book concludes with an attempt to see what a proper understanding of picturing can tell us about that deeply mysterious phenomenon, the visual imagination.

Revue de presse

"...his discussion is instructive and valuable because of its detail, its elaboration of the many problems that pictures pose, and the theoretical honesty and thoroughness with which he addresses all these problems...one cannot but come away with an enriched appreciation of the problems posed by pictures and the challenges any theory needs to address." Sonea Sedivy, The Philosophical Review

"...well-structured and written, and expertly argued." International Studies in Philosophy

"...it is a significant account for the specialist interested in late 20th-century questions about aesthetic experience." International Philosophical Quarterly

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521582598
• ISBN 13: 9780521582599
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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