Philosophical Perspectives On Depiction (mind Association Occasional)

Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES This series consists of occasional volumes of original papers on predefined themes. The Mind Association nominates an editor or editors for each collection, and may cooperate with other bodies in promoting conferences or other scholarly activities in connection with the preparation of particular volumes. Publications Officer: M. A. Stewart Secretary: M. Fricker Recent volumes in the series include: Identity and Modality Edited by Fraser MacBride Values and Virtues Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics Edited by Timothy Chappell Truthmakers The Contemporary Debate Edited by Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd Dispositions and Causes Edited by Toby Handfield Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism Essays on Wilfrid Sellars Edited by Willem A. deVries Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction Edited by Catharine Abell and Katerina Bantinaki 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © the several contributors 2010 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by MPG Books Group, Bodmin and King’s Lynn ISBN 978–0–19–958596–0 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Acknowledgements Most of the chapters in this collection were presented, in an earlier form, at a conference organized by the editors at the University of Manchester in May 2007 and funded by the Mind Association, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Analysis Trust. We are grateful to these institutions for their support. The editors would particularly like to express their sincere gratitude to the Mind Association for their support and encouragement during the planning and preparation of the collection. We would also like to thank the philosophers and graduate students who attended the conference, whose wholehearted interest in depiction encouraged us to proceed with this volume. Finally, we would like to thank the chapters’ authors for contributing them to this collection, for their hard work and willingness to engage with one another’s arguments, and for their patience during the process of putting this volume together. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures and Table Notes on the Contributors Introduction Catharine Abell and Katerina Bantinaki ix xi 1 1