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SIGHT AND SENSIBILITY

Evaluating Pictures

Sight and Sensibility presents the ﬁrst detailed and comprehensive

theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts the puzzle

of how the value of seeing anything in a picture can exceed that of

seeing it face to face - his solution pinpoints how seeing-in is like

and unlike ordinary seeing. Moreover, since part of what we see in

pictures is emotional expressions, his book also develops a theory of

expression especially tailored to pictures.

Some evaluations of pictures as opportunities for seeing-in are

aesthetic, others are cognitive or moral. Lopes argues that these

evaluations interact, for some imply others. He proposes novel

conceptions of aesthetic and cognitive evaluation: aesthetic

evaluation is distinguished from art evaluation as essentially tied

to experience, and some cognitive evaluations assess cognitive

capacities, including perceptual ones.

Ultimately, Lopes defends images against the widespread criticism

that they thwart serious thought, especially moral thought, because

they merely replicate ordinary experience. He concludes by pre-

senting detailed case studies of the contribution pictures can make

to moral reﬂection.

Dominic Mclver Lopes is Professor of Philosophy at the University

of British Columbia.

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Sight and Sensibility

Evaluating Pictures

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