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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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119Borgesian mapsAnalytic Philosophy 63 (2): 90-98. 2020.Analytic Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 90-98, June 2022.
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37Depicting 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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33Modeling 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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45Art 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, Herbert Von Halem Verlang. pp. 66-92. 2011.
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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, Stephen Biggs & Mohan Matthen (eds.), Perception and Its Modalities. pp. 205-221. 2015.
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1Information theoryIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception. pp. 734-754. 2015.
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Recording and representing, analog and digitalIn Zed Adams (ed.), Giving a Damn: Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland. pp. 269-289. 2017.
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Auditory perspectivesIn Bence Nanay (ed.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception, Routledge. pp. 83-94. 2016.
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156On 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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252What 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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48Pictorial 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
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34Timeless Traces of Temporal PatternsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (4): 335-346. 2016.Long-exposure photographs present distinctive philosophical challenges. They do not quite look like things in motion. Experiences of such photos take time, but not in a way that mimics the time of the motion depicted. In fact, it would not be off base to worry that these photos fail, strictly speaking, to depict motion or things-in-time. And if they fail to depict motion, then it is an interesting question what, if anything, they succeed in depicting. These timeless traces of temporal patterns a…Read more
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126Perceptual Content is Vertically ArticulateAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 44 (4): 357-369. 2007.None
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111Review: Casey O'Callaghan: Sounds: A Philosophical Theory (review)Mind 117 (468): 1112-1116. 2008.
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154Knowing 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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60Hue 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 (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction, Oxford University Press. pp. 25. 2010.