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111Metaphor and knowledge attained via the bodyPhilosophical Psychology 6 (4). 1993.Mark Johnson argues in favour of embodied experience as the basis for knowledge. An important implication of his analysis is that these experiences instigate pervasive metaphorical systems. Johnson 's argument involves reductionist problems, chicken-and-egg problems and, at times, unclear criteria for what counts as a basic experience and a metaphor
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17Foldout includes foreshortening in drawings by a blind manRivista di Estetica 47 31-45. 2011.In a case-history, Ben, a university-graduate blind adult, is shown to draw a cube as if it were folded out, but with slim rectangles for the sides around a central square. This form is drawn by sighted 8-year-olds. It might involve foreshortening and parallel projection, despite the presence of more sides than would be present in parallel projection in a single direction. Also, Ben drew a glass’s brim as both a straight line and as an ellipse, a form common in drawings by sighted 8-year-olds th…Read more
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11Drawing and the Blind: Pictures to TouchJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (3): 339-341. 1995.
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10A Psychology of Picture Perception: Images and InformationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 (2): 232-234. 1974.
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3Extension of Dancer’s Legs: Increasing Angles Show MotionFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2022.Usain Bolt’s Lightning Bolt pose, one arm highly extended to one side, suggests action. Likewise, static pictures of animals, legs extended, show animation. We tested a new cue for motion perception—extension—and in particular extension of dancer’s legs. An experiment with pictures of a dancer finds larger angles between the legs suggest greater movement, especially with in-air poses and in lateral views. Leg positions graded from simply standing to very difficult front and side splits. Liking r…Read more
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What Is a Surface? In the Real World? And Pictures?In Peer F. Bundgaard & Frederik Stjernfelt (eds.), Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art: What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them?, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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18What is an outline picture in vision and touch?: Blind and paleolithic artistsIn Alex Arteaga, Marion Lauschke & Horst Bredekamp (eds.), Bodies in Action and Symbolic Forms: Zwei Seiten der Verkörperungstheorie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 239-252. 2012.
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21Universals of depiction, illusion as nonpictorial, and limits to depictionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (1): 88-90. 1989.
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Line and borders of surfaces: Grouping and foreshorteningIn Margaret Atherton Heiko Hecht & Robert Schwartz (eds.), Looking Into Pictures, . pp. 321--354. 2003.
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Metropolitan State University of DenverDepartment of PhilosophyOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |