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?

Notes – 317

Bibliography – 325

Index – 339