Picture, image and experience: a philosophical inquiry
Auteur :
Hopkins, Robert
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521582599
Date de publication :
3 déc. 1998
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
460 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
How do pictures represent? Do they, like words, depend on human conventions for their meaning, or do they instead exploit something else - perhaps by looking like what they represent? Robert Hopkins examines and criticizes the currently available answers to this question, before proposing and defending one of his own.