Pictorial Experience, Imagining from the Inside, and Imaginative Penetration
Keywords:
Non–illusionistic Awareness, Simultaneous Awareness, Two–dimensional Pictures, Kendall Walton, Roger Scruton
Abstract
In pictorial experience, we are normally aware of the visible features of two distinct sets of objects: the depicting surface and the depicted entities. Imagination–based accounts of pictorial experience maintain that our awareness of the depicted (e.g., of a landscape or a man) is essentially imaginative. My main aim in this paper is to provide a specific objection to imagination–based accounts. More specifically, I argue that they are unable to account for the fact that the kind of awareness, which is exemplified by our awareness of the depicted scene involved in our non–illusionistic pictorial experience of a two–dimensional picture, could not be instantiated without the simultaneous perceptual awareness of some marked surface.
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Dorsch, F. 2016. Pictorial Experience, Imagining from the Inside, and Imaginative Penetration. Analysis. Claves de Pensamiento Contemporáneo. 19, (Dec. 2016), no. 8: pp. 1-34. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1295676.
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