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Zusatztext can fairly claim to represent the state of the art Informationen zum Autor Catharine Abell is a philosopher at the University of Manchester. Her research interests lie predominantly in aesthetics, particularly in the philosophy of the representational arts. They include the nature and value of depictive representation; its role in communication and its relation to linguistic representation; expression and interpretation in the representational arts; and the phenomenon of style.Katerina Bantinaki worked at the University of Manchester before moving to the University of Crete, Greece, where she is currently a Lecturer in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Her research interests lie predominantly in the philosophy of art. She is particularly interested in philosophical issues relevant to the perception and interpretation of works of art, the value of works of art, and their expressive import. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
