Visual Thinking ≈ C

Contents

1. Early Stirrings – 1, Perception torn from thinking.


2. The Intelligence of Perception (i) – 13 Perception as cognition.


3. The Intelligence of Perception (ii) – 37 Subtracting the context.


4. Two and Two Together – 54 Relations depend on structure.


5. The Past in the Present – 80 Forces acting on memory.


6. The Images of Thought – 97 What are mental images like?


7. Concepts Take Shape – 116 Abstract gestures.


8. Pictures, Symbols, and Signs – 135 The functions of images.


9. What Abstraction Is Not – 153 A harmful dichotomy.


10. What Abstraction Is – 153 Types and containers.


11. With Feet on the Ground – 188 Abstraction as withdrawal.


12. Thinking With Pure Shapes – 208 Numbers reflect life.


13. Words in Their Place – 226 Can one think in words?


14. Art and Thought – 254 Thinking in children's drawings.


15. Models for Theory – 274 Cosmological shapes.


16. Vision in Education – 294 What is art for?


17. Notes – 317


18. Bibliography – 325


19. Index – 339