Internal and external pictures

Authors: Abell C.; Currie G.

Source: Philosophical Psychology, Volume 12, Number 4, 1 December 1999 , pp. 429-445(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

What do pictures and mental images have in common? The contemporary tendency to reject mental picture theories of imagery suggests that the answer is: not much. We show that pictures and visual imagery have something important in common. They both contribute to mental simulations: pictures as inputs and mental images as outputs. But we reject the idea that mental images involve mental pictures, and we use simulation theory to strengthen the anti-pictorialist"s case. Along the way we try to account for caricature and for some basic features of pictorial representations.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

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