Resemblance and Representation : An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures
It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example,...
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| Formaat: | Livre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2016.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Online toegang: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2018-05-16 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 209 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Resemblance and representation, an essay in the philosophy of pictures, Ben Blumson, 2014, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 1 vol. (209 p.), 978-1-78374-075-8 |
| Samenvatting: | It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait's resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It's natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description |
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| Beschrijving item: | Description d'après la consultation, 2018-05-16 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 209 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Formaat: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografie: | Bibliogr. |
| ISBN: | 9782821876194 |
| Toegang: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |