Visual Thinking ≈ 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?


Notes – 317
Bibliography – 325
Index – 339


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