Authors: Ben Blumson
Publish Date: 2009/01/21
Volume: 149, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-151
Abstract
This paper argues for a possible worlds theory of the content of pictures with three complications depictive content is centred twodimensional and structured The paper argues that this theory supports a strong analogy between depictive and other kinds of representation and the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblanceI’m grateful to comments from Jens Christian Bjerring David Chalmers Andy Egan Frank Jackson Uriah Kriegel Raamy Majeed and Daniel Stoljar and audiences at the Australian National University the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference in Auckland and the University of Sydney
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