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