Visual Thinking
Table of Contents

1. Early Stirrings / Perception torn from thinking.
001

2. The Intelligence of Perception (i) / Perception as cognition.
013

3. The Intelligence of Perception (ii) / Subtracting the context.
037

4. Two and Two Together / Relations depend on structure.
054

5. The Past in the Present / Forces acting on memory.
080

6. The Images of Thought / What are mental images like?
097

7. Concepts Take Shape / Abstract gestures.
116

8. Pictures, Symbols, and Signs / The functions of images.
135

9. What Abstraction Is Not / A harmful dichotomy.
153

10. What Abstraction Is / Types and containers.
153

11. With Feet on the Ground / Abstraction as withdrawl.
188

12. Thinking With Pure Shapes / Numbers reflect life.
208

13. Words in Their Place / Can one think in words?
226

14. Art and Thought / Thinking in children's drawings.
254

15. Models for Theory / Cosmological shapes.
274

16. Vision in Education / What is art for?
294

Notes
317

Bibliogaraphy
325

Index
339