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Information theoryIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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56Borgesian mapsAnalytic Philosophy 63 (2): 90-98. 2020.Analytic Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 90-98, June 2022.
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41Depicting Properties’ PropertiesJournal of the American Philosophical Association 7 (3): 312-328. 2021.Little has been said about whether pictures can depict properties of properties. This article argues that they do. As a result, resemblance theories of depiction must be changed to accommodate this phenomenon. In addition, diagrams and maps are standardly understood to represent properties of properties, so this article brings accounts of depiction closer to accounts of diagrams than they had been before. Finally, the article suggests that recent work on perceptual content gives us reason to bel…Read more
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37Modeling the Meanings of Pictures: Depiction and the Philosophy of LanguageOxford University Press. 2020.John Kulvicki explores the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful, taking inspiration from the philosophy of language. Pictures are important parts of communicative acts. They express a variety of thoughts, and they are also representations. Kulvicki shows how the meanings of pictures let us put them to a wide range of communicative uses.
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49Art made for picturesPhenomenology and Mind 14 120-134. 2018.Over the last fifteen years, communication has become pictorial in a manner that it never was before. Billions of people have smart phones that enable them to take, edit, and share pictures easily whenever they choose to do so. This has created expressive niches within which new activities, with their own norms, continue to develop. Ready availability of these pictorial modes of communication, we claim, not only constitutes a change in the range of our communicative practices, but also changes t…Read more
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1Bence Nanay: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (review)Times Literary Supplement 2016. 2016.
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NaturalismIn Keith Brown (ed.), Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd edition, Elsevier. 2005.
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DepictionIn Michael Kelly (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, second edition, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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Twofoldness and visual awarenessIn Klaus Sachs-Hombach & Rainer Totzke (eds.), Bilder, Sehen, Denken: Zum Verhältnis von Begrifflich-Philosophischen Und Empirisch-Psychologischen Ansätzen in der Bildwissenschaftlichen Forschung, Herbert Von Halem Verlag. pp. 66-92. 2011.
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Visual artsIn Anna Christina Ribeiro (ed.), Continuum Companion to Aesthetics, Continuum. pp. 171-183. 2012.
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Beholders' shares and the languages of artIn Paul Taylor (ed.), Meditations on a Heritage: Papers on the Work and Legacy of Sir Ernst Gombrich, Paul Holberton Publishing. pp. 127-138. 2014.
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Sound stimulants: defending the stable disposition viewIn Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen & Stephen Biggs (eds.), Perception and Its Modalities, Oxford University Press. pp. 205-221. 2014.
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1Information theoryIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 734-754. 2015.
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Recording and representing, analog and digitalIn Zed Adams & Jacob Browning (eds.), Giving a Damn: Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland, Mit Pres. pp. 269-289. 2016.
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Auditory perspectivesIn Bence Nanay (ed.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception, Routledge. pp. 83-94. 2016.
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79On Images: Their Structure and ContentOxford University Press UK. 2006.What makes pictures different from all of the other ways we have of representing things? Why do pictures seem so immediate? What makes a picture realistic or not? Against prevailing wisdom, Kulvicki claims that what makes pictures special is not how we perceive them, but how they relate to one another. This not only provides some new answers to old questions, but it shows that there are many more kinds of pictures out there than many have thought.
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253What is What it’s Like? Introducing Perceptual Modes of PresentationSynthese 156 (2): 205-229. 2007.The central claim of this paper is that what it is like to see green or any other perceptible property is just the perceptual mode of presentation of that property. Perceptual modes of presentation are important because they help resolve a tension in current work on consciousness. Philosophers are pulled by three mutually inconsistent theses: representational externalism, representationalism, and phenomenal internalism. I throw my hat in with defenders of the first two: the externalist represent…Read more
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112Review: Casey O'Callaghan: Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (review)Mind 117 (468): 1112-1116. 2008.
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157Knowing with images: Medium and messagePhilosophy of Science 77 (2): 295-313. 2010.Problems concerning scientists’ uses of representations have received quite a bit of attention recently. The focus has been on how such representations get their contents and on just what those contents are. Less attention has been paid to what makes certain kinds of scientific representations different from one another and thus well suited to this or that epistemic end. This article considers the latter question with particular focus on the distinction between images and graphs on the one hand …Read more
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61Hue magnitudes and revelationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1): 36-37. 2003.Revelation, the thesis that the full intrinsic nature of colors is revealed to us by color experiences, is false in Byrne & Hilbert's (B&H's) view, but in an interesting and nonobvious way. I show what would make Revelation true, given B&H's account of colors, and then show why that situation fails to obtain, and why that is interesting.
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16Pictorial DiversityIn Catharine Abell & Katerina Bantinaki (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction, Oxford University Press. pp. 25. 2010.
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121Review: Seeing Reason: Image and Language in Learning to Think (review)Mind 114 (454): 461-465. 2005.
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30Heavenly Sight and the Nature of Seeing-InJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (4): 387-397. 2009.
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199Pictorial 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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117Isomorphism 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