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286Depictive seeing and double contentIn Catharine Abell & Katerina Bantinaki (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Picturing, Oxford University Press. 2010.A picture provides both configurational content concerning its design features, and recognitional content about its external subject. But how is this possible, since all that a viewer can actually see is the picture's own design? I argue that the most plausible explanation is that a picture's design has a dual function. It both encodes artistically relevant design content, and in turn that design content encodes the subject content of the picture--producing overall a double content structure. Al…Read more
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506Theater, representation, types and interpretationAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 39 (2): 197-209. 2002.In the performing arts, including music, theater, dance and so on, theoretical issues both about artworks and about performances of them must be dealt with, so that their theoretical analysis is inherently more complex and troublesome than that of nonperforming arts such as painting or film, in which primarily only artworks need to be discussed. Thus it is especially desirable in the case of the performing arts to look for defensible broad theoretical simplifications or generalizations that coul…Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
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