Pictures and their Use in Communication: A Philosophical Essay

Abstract

One Pictures and Depicting.- I Picturing.- 1. Pictures and denotation.- 2. The use of pictures.- 3. Telling what a picture is of.- 4. Conclusion.- II Depicting and the Conventional Image.- 1. Leonardo and the practice of depicting.- 2. Towards conventionalism.- 3. Coordination problems.- 4. The problem of picturehood.- 5. Conventions and resemblance.- 6. An objection to conventionalism.- 7. Conclusion.- III Conventions and the Growth of Pictorial Style.- 1. Two kinds of pictorial convention.- 2. The Gombrich problem.- 3. The individuation of pictorial styles.- 4. Pictorial progress.- 5. Pictorial revolutions.- 6. Conclusion.- Two Pictorial Representation.- IV Pictorial Illocutionary Acts.- 1. The picture/use distinction.- 2. Illocutionary acts.- 3. Pictorial illocutions.- 4. Explaining oneself.- 5. Conclusion.- V Pictorial Propositions.- 1. Indication and attribution.- 2. Can pictures express propositions?.- 3. Pictorial propositions - An objection.- 4. Pictorial propositions - Some qualifications.- 5. Conclusion.- VI The Pictorial Point of View.- 1. Pictures in nature - Schemata and beliefs.- 2. Noticing a rhinoceros.- 3. Perceptual revolutions.- 4. Visual 'Metaphor'.- 5. Representation and arousal.- 6. Pictures and expression.- 7. Conclusion.- VII Conclusion.- Name index.

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