Dear Mike
I’m curious about how the conception/perception
question actually arises and about whether you are looking for texts in
psychology or philosophy that explain what is meant by the distinction so that
you can go on to discuss it with your own examples or for texts that relate to art
and visual communication. I’m not sure that the question about whether
images can make statements is the same as the question about the distinction
between conception and perception.
Anyway, Foucault’s Ceci n’est pas une pipe is fun to
read and kind of related.
Mark Rollins has a chapter in The
Routledge Companion to Aesthetics on ‘Pictorial Representation’
which gives an overview of different approaches to perception and the
interpretation of pictures. Probably also not quite what you want.
Helen
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predication??
i
hope i can make use of filmosophers’ expertise to help me with a tricky
problem
i’m
teaching a course on film adaptation and one of the many issues that such a
course raises is what’s often referred to as the conception/perception
question . . . in thinking about this one inevitably ends up wondering about
the question of the nature of predication, which [for me, as a philosophical
novice] is best illustrated by the question of whether THE BLACK DOG and
THE DOG IS BLACK are equivalent utterances – and the related question of
whether an image [or movie] that can clearly show a black dog can also say [or
predicate] that a dog IS black
i
realize that cinema/moving images, and perhaps even single images, can be used to
predicate, through the development of a language of images . . . but my
question is whether or not a single image, an image showing a black dog, may be
said to predicate blackness about the dog . . . is short, can images make
statements, can an image predicate or can it merely describe
now
i’m not asking filmosophers for their thoughts about this complex
question, which i believe has a long history . . . . rather i’m wondering
if some of you can recommend materials [preferably short essays or book chapters]
that deal with this question in ways that would be intelligible to beginning
undergraduate students
any
suggestions most welcome – in advance many thanks
mike