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Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-as and Seeing-in book cover

1st Edition

Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation Seeing-as and Seeing-in

Edited By Gary Kemp, Gabriele Mras Copyright 2016
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge
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Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential thesis that the core of pictorial representation is not resemblance but 'seeing-in', in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim. We can see a passing cloud as... Read more

Introduction Gary Kemp and Gabriele M. Mras 



Part 1: Wittgenstein and Seeing-as 



1. The Room in a View Charles Travis 



Part 2: Difficulties with Wollheim’s Borrowing from Wittgenstein 



2. Seeing Aspects and Telling Stories about It Joachim Schulte 



3. Aspects of Perception Avner Baz 



4. Aspect-perception, Perception and Animals: Wittgenstein and Beyond Hans-Johann Glock 



5. Wittgenstein’s Seeing as: A Survey of Various Contexts Volker A. Munz 



Part 3: Benefits from Wollheim’s Borrowing from Wittgenstein 



6. Leonardo’s Challenge: Wittgenstein and Wollheim at the Intersection of Perception and Projection Garry L. Hagberg 



7. ‘Surface’ as an Expression of an Intention – On Richard Wollheim’s Conception of Art as a Form of Life Gabriele M. Mras 



8. Richard Wollheim on Seeing-In: From Representational Seeing to Imagination Richard Heinrich 



Part 4: Rescuing Wollheim’s Account without the Support of Wittgenstein 



9. A measure of Kant seen in Wollheim Gary Kemp 



10. Seeing-In as Aspect Perception Fabian Dorsch 



Part 5: Imagination and Emotion in Wollheim’s Account of Pictorial Experience 



11. Wollheim’s Ekphrastic Aesthetics: Emotion and its Relation to Art Michael Levine 



12. Visions: Wollheim and Walton on the Nature of Pictures  David Hills. 



Index

Biography

Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference and Meaning (2012), and What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? (Routledge, 2013).





Gabriele M. Mras is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the WU Vienna, Austria. Her writings include Naturalismus, Reduktion und die Bedingungen von Gedanken (2002) and Wahrheit, Gedanke, Subjekt (2001), and she is co-editor of Conceptus: Journal of Philosophy.

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