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