Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-As and Seeing-In

ISBN-13: 9780367876470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 308 str.

Gary Kemp; Gabriele Mras

Opis

This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential argument that pictorial representation is about 'seeing-in', in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim. Essential reading for students and scholars of aesthetics and philosophy of art as well as related subjects such as philosophy of mind and art theory.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.