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A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction

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  1. Alberto Voltolini

    1. University of Turin, Italy

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. What Is Alive and What Is Dead in Previous Theories of Depiction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Depictions aka Pictures, i.e., Pictorial Representations

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      Pages 3-22

    3. Semiotic Theories of Depiction

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      Pages 23-44

    4. Resemblance Theories of Depiction

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      Pages 45-69

    5. Seeing-in, Seeing-as, Recognition and Make-Believe Theories of Depiction

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      Pages 70-96

    6. More on Seeing-in

      • Alberto Voltolini
      Pages 97-124

  3. The Syncretistic Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. The Syncretistic Theory: A General Survey

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      Pages 127-167

    3. Applications, Consequences and Integrations of the Theory

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      Pages 168-199

    4. Defending the Syncretistic Theory

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      Pages 200-222

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 223-269
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What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Turin, Italy

    Alberto Voltolini

About the author

Alberto Voltolini (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 1989) is Professor on the Philosophy of the Mind at the University of Turin (Italy) and is a philosopher of language and mind whose works have focused mainly on fiction, intentionality, depiction and Wittgenstein. He has previously held scholarships at the Universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and Sussex (UK) and has been visiting professor at the Universities of California, Riverside, USA, Auckland in New Zealand and the Australian National University, Canberra and Barcelona in Spain. He has also been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2002-08) and of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009-12). His publications include How Ficta Follow Fiction (2006) as well as the "Fiction" entry (with F. Kroon) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction

  • Authors: Alberto Voltolini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263292

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-26328-5Published: 03 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44249-2Published: 01 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26329-2Published: 28 May 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 269

  • Topics: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, Fine Arts, Arts

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