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