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41Heavenly Sight and the Nature of Seeing-InJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (4): 387-397. 2009.
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192Pictorial representationPhilosophy Compass 1 (6). 2006.Maps, notes, descriptions, diagrams, flowcharts, photographs, paintings, and prints, all, in one way or another, manage to be about things or stand for them. This article looks at three ways in which philosophers have explained the way that pictures represent the world. It starts by describing some leading perceptual accounts and then surveys contemporary content and structural alternatives.
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113Isomorphism in information-carrying systemsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 85 (4): 380-395. 2004.For the information theorist, the lawful generalizations that subsume instantiations of properties in the environment and instantiations of properties of perceptual representations determine the latter's content. Perceptual representations are also commonly thought to be isomorphic to what they represent, which presents the information theorist with a puzzle. What role could isomorphism play in perceptual representation when lawful generalizations determine content? I show that in order for the …Read more
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175The nature of noisePhilosophers' Imprint 8 1-16. 2008.There is a growing consensus in the philosophical literature that sounds differ rather profoundly from colors. Colors are qualities, while sounds are particulars of some sort or other, such as events or pressure waves. A key motivation for this is that sounds seem to be transient, to evolve over time, to begin and end, while colors seem like stable qualities of objects' surfaces. I argue that sounds are indeed, like colors, stable qualities of objects. Sounds are not transient, and they do not s…Read more
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157Perceptual content, information, and the primary/secondary quality distinctionPhilosophical Studies 122 (2): 103-131. 2005.Our perceptual systems make information about the world available to our cognitive faculties. We come to think about the colors and shapes of objects because we are built somehow to register the instantiation of these properties around us. Just how we register the presence of properties and come to think about them is one of the central problems with understanding perceptual cognition. Another problem in the philosophy of perception concerns the nature of the properties whose presence we registe…Read more
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64ImagesRoutledge. 2013.The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy. This is the first book to connect problems with understanding representational artifacts, like pictures, diagrams, and inscriptions, to the philosophies of science, mind, and art. Can images be a source of knowledge? Are images merely conventional signs, like words? What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? In this clear and stimulating introduction to the problem John V. Kulvicki explores these questions and mo…Read more
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47Pictorial realism as VerityJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (3). 2006.JOHN KULVICKI; Pictorial Realism as Verity, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 64, Issue 3, 30 June 2005, Pages 343–354, https://doi.org/10.111.
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134Analog Representation and the Parts PrincipleReview of Philosophy and Psychology 6 (1): 165-180. 2015.Analog representation is often cast in terms of an engineering distinction between smooth and discrete systems. The engineering notion cuts across interesting representational categories, however, so it is poorly suited to thinking about kinds of representation. This paper suggests that analog representations support a pattern of interaction, specifically open-ended searches for content across levels of abstraction. They support the pattern by sharing a structure with what they represent. Contin…Read more