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    Review of Alberto Voltolini's "A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction" (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 226. 2016.
    Review.
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    Caricatures and Prop Oriented Make-Believe
    Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 3. 2016.
    A caricature can reveal an aspect of its subject that a more faithful representation would fail to render: by depicting a slow and clumsy person as a monkey one can point out such qualities of the depicted subject, and by depicting a person with quite big ears as a person with enormous ears one can point out that the depicted person has rather big ears. How can a form of representation that is by definition inaccurate be so representationally powerful? Figurative language raises a similar puzzle…Read more
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    Understanding Resemblance in Depiction: What Can we Learn from Wittgenstein?
    Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 6 (1): 239-253. 2013.
    Wittgenstein’s remarks on “seeing-as” have influenced several scholars working on depiction. They have especially inspired those who think that in order to understand depiction we should understand the specific kind of visual experience depictions arouse in the viewer (e.g. Gombrich [1960], Wollheim [1968; 1987]). In this paper I would like to go a different way. My hypothesis is that certain of Wittgenstein’s claims both in the Tractatus and in his later writings resonate well within the contex…Read more
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    Rappresentazione pittorica
    Aphex 11. 2015.
    Le immagini sono rappresentazioni visive: quello che mostrano ai nostri occhi è rilevante per la comprensione di ciò che rappresentano. Le rappresentazioni pittoriche sono immagini che rappresentano visivamente aspetti visibili di altri oggetti: per questo motivo, ci sembra spesso che queste immagini assomiglino agli oggetti che rappresentano, ci sembra di riconoscere tali oggetti guardando le immagini che li rappresentano e può anche capitarci che ci sembri di avere un'esperienza degli oggetti …Read more