@article {Dilworth:October 2005:0007-0904:388,
	author = "Dilworth, John",
	title = "The Perception of Representational Content",
	journal = "British Journal of Aesthetics",
	volume = "45",
	year = "October 2005",
	abstract = "How can it be true that one sees a lake when looking at a picture of a lake, since one's gaze is directed upon a flat dry surface covered in paint? An adequate contemporary explanation cannot avoid taking a theoretical stand on some fundamental cognitive science issues concerning the nature of perception, of pictorial content, and of perceptual reference to items that, strictly speaking, have no physical existence. A solution is proposed that invokes a broadly functionalist, naturalistic theory of perception, plus a double content analysis of perceptual interpretation, which permits non-supervenient, culturally autonomous modes of reference to be generated and artistically exploited even in a purely physical world. In addition, a functionalist concept of broad or ‘spread’ reference replaces the traditional precise intentional concept of reference, which previously made reference to non-existent items theoretically intractable.",
	pages = "388-411(24)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/aesthj/2005/00000045/00000004/art00388"
	doi = "doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayi050"
}