Abstract
What do pictures and mental images have in common? The contemporary tendency to reject "mental picture" theories of imagery suggests that the answer is: not much. We show that pictures and visual imagery have something important in common. They both contribute to mental simulations: pictures as inputs and mental images as outputs. But we reject the idea that mental images involve mental pictures, and we use simulation theory to strengthen the anti-pictorialist's case. Along the way we try to account for caricature and for some basic features of pictorial representations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 414-445 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Philosophical Psychology |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |