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?