Table of Contents
01 Early Stirrings
Perception torn from thinking.
13 The Intelligence of Perception (i)
Perception as cognition.
37 The Intelligence of Perception (ii)
Subtracting the context.
54 Two and Two Together
Relations depend on structure.
80 The Past in the Present
Forces acting on memory.
97 The Images of Thought
What are mental images like?
116 Concepts Take Shape
Abstract gestures.
135 Pictures, Symbols, and Signs
The functions of images.
153 What Abstraction Is Not
A harmful dichotomy.
153 What Abstraction Is
Types and containers.
188 With Feet on the Ground
Abstraction as withdrawl.
208 Thinking With Pure Shapes
Numbers reflect life.
226 Words in Their Place
Can one think in words?
254 Art and Thought
Thinking in children's drawings.
274 Cosmological shapes.
Cosmological shapes.
254 Vision in Education
What is art for?
317 Notes
325 Bibliography
339 Index