Depicting Movement (Aasen 2020)

Solveig Aasen, Principal Investigator of the ‘Perceiving Representations’ project, has published a paper on ‘Depicting Movement’ in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Abstract

The paper addresses an underexplored puzzle about pictorial representation, a puzzle about how depiction of movement is possible. One aim is to clarify what the puzzle is. It might seem to concern a conflict between the nature of static surfaces and the dynamic things that they can depict. But the real conflict generating the puzzle is between the pictorial mode of presentation and what can be seen in pictures. A second aim of the paper is to solve the puzzle. While many take it that depicting movement is to make visible something that has duration, I suggest that it is to make visible something atemporal.
 

Aasen, Solveig (2020). ‘Depicting Movement’. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (1): 34–47. DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2019.170659 (Open Access)

By Solveig Aasen
Published Feb. 25, 2020 8:05 PM - Last modified Jan. 31, 2023 12:18 PM