Dear all, The second meeting of this term's Cambridge Mind Seminar will be on Tuesday 8 May at 11am. Solveig Aasen (Oslo) will present a paper. The Cambridge Mind Seminar is an advanced philosophy of mind seminar with short talks by local and not-so-local people, followed by discussion.
Meetings take place on Tuesdays from 11:00-13:00, location: Old Senior Combination Room, Queens’ College (unless otherwise specified). Refreshments will be provided. Pictorial intentionality and the use of models Solveig Aasen (Oslo) 8 May, 11:00 (Old Senior Combination Room, Queens' College) Abstract: What makes a picture depict what it does? This question has often been answered by appealing to resemblance between picture surface and what is depicted, features of the experience of the picture, or pictorial conventions. In this paper, however, I try to make progress in a different way by addressing the question in terms of the notions of content and intentionality. It is not clear that pictorial content and pictorial intentionality must work very differently from linguistic content and linguistic intentionality, even though our perception plays a very different role in settling what a picture is about than in settling what a piece of language is about. I argue for a language-like structure to the relationship between pictures, their content and their intentionality, while maintaining that pictorial contents are understood by being seen. It is part of this view that what is responsible for pictorial intentionality goes beyond normal visual entities. In arguing for this view, it is especially useful to consider pictures made by using models or sitters that differ from what the picture is about. Cambridge Mind Seminar Easter 2018 Schedule • 1 May: Henry Shevlin (CFI, Downing College) • 8 May: Solveig Aasen (Oslo) • 15 May: Neil Barton (Vienna) • 22 May: Anastasia Berg (Corpus Christi) • 5 June: TBA • 12 June: Umrao Sethi (CUNY) [Angevin Room, Queens’ College] • 19 June: Sophie Archer (Keble College, Oxford) [Angevin Room, Queens’ College] _______________________ Dr Maarten Steenhagen Lecturer and Director of Studies Faculty of Philosophy / Queens’ College University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
