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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Performing Arts | |
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The Representational Content View of Artworks | |
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A Minimalist Argument for the RC View of Plays | |
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Having and Eating One's Representational Cake | |
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Advantages of the Double Content Approach | |
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More on Plays | |
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Plays and Fictional Worlds | |
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Comparisons with Walton's View | |
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Premature Theorizing, and Explanation of Fictions | |
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A Defense of the Fictionalist Approach | |
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Fictions and the Real World | |
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An Apparent Counterexample | |
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Spatiotemporal Location and Existence | |
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More on the Inseparability of Play and Fictional World | |
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More on Internal versus External Views | |
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Conclusion | |
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Criticisms of Type Theories of Plays | |
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The Nontypehood of Representation | |
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The Variety of Representations of Plays | |
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Types, Tokens, and Interpretations | |
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How the Property Transfer Condition Ensures the Failure of Type Theory | |
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Interpretation and Wollheim's Incompleteness Condition | |
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A Double Performance Counterexample to Type Theory | |
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Plays Are Particulars Rather than Types | |
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Conclusion | |
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Visual Arts | |
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An RC Theory of the Visual Arts | |
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Artifacts, Artworks, and Counterexamples | |
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Type-Token Theory versus the RC View | |
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Features of an RC Theory of Visual Artworks | |
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RC Theory versus Danto | |
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Overcoming an Objection | |
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Artistic Medium and Subject Matter | |
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Art Media and Medium Content | |
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Nonphysical Aspects of Media | |
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A "Meaning Nontransmission" Argument | |
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Actions, Traces, and Medium | |
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Objections | |
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Medium Content versus Subject Matter Content | |
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The Possible Indispensability of Medium Content | |
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How Artworks Make Statements | |
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Broader Horizons | |
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A Defense of Three Depictive Views | |
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Three Depictive Views | |
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Wollheim and Twofoldness | |
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Medium Content and "a Medium" | |
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An Interpretive Twofoldness Thesis | |
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Questioning Interpretive Twofoldness | |
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Gombrich Vindicated | |
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Artworks, Designs, and Orientation | |
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Artworks and Designs | |
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Art, Design, and Intentions | |
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Two Sculptures, One Object | |
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Two Designers, One Design | |
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More on the Concept of a Design | |
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Piggyback Sortal Designs | |
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Literary versus Visual Designs | |
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Reorienting Artistic Printmaking | |
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Intrinsic and Field Orientation | |
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An Example: Anna's Printmaking | |
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Diagnosis | |
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Identifying and Consequent Interpretations | |
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Constitutive Interpretation | |
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Differences and Similarities in the Pictures | |
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A Defense of Anna's Method | |
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Pictures Are Not Types | |
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Justifying the Example | |
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The Functional Nature of Intrinsic Orientation of Concrete Objects | |
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Varieties of Visual Representation | |
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Pictures and Orientation | |
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Pictorial Versus Delineative Representation | |
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Maps | |
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Structural Representation | |
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Aspect Representation | |
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Aspectual versus "Contra-Aspectual" Delineations | |
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Integrative Representation | |
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Possible Pictures versus Delineations | |
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Uses of Delineations and Depictions | |
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Four Theories of Inversion in Art and Music | |
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A Pictorial Example | |
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More Inversion Theory | |
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The Four Theories | |
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A Musical Example | |
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Theory 1 (The OX Theory) | |
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Theory 2 (The MX Theory) | |
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Taking Stock: Issues of Interpretation | |
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Theories 3 and 4 (The MFE and MFA Theories) | |
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Conclusion | |
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Representation | |
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External and Internal Representation | |
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Internal versus External Representation | |
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Possible Objections | |
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The Impossibility of Seeing Through | |
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A Wider Context | |
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Internal Representation | |
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Allaying Ontological Anxieties | |
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Representation and the Intensional/Extensional Distinction | |
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The Nonidentity of Internal and External Objects of Representation | |
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Nonidentity, and Actual versus Representational Truth | |
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The Logical Status of Fictional Entities | |
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More on the Status of Fictional Entities | |
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Further Developments | |
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Issues Resolved | |
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The Two Kinds of Representation (CA and AS) in a DC Theory | |
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Aspect Representation Generalized | |
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The Integration of AS and Intrinsic Representation | |
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The Integration of Orientation and Medium Content | |
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Artistic Realism | |
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Orientational Summary, and the Nature of Fields | |
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Modifications of Artistic Realism | |
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DC Theory in Depth: Artistic Realism, Misrepresentation and the IP-US/UP-IS Duality, and More | |
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A Conflict of Information Problem | |
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Stages in Cognitive Processing of Artworks, and Misrepresentation | |
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Representation Stages Are Not Completely Separate | |
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Duality Cases Involve Common Tops | |
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Common Fields and Misrepresentation | |
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Actual Changes in Field Orientation | |
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The Special Case of Spatial Orientation Properties | |
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The Iteration (Nesting) Issue | |
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The Nature of a Medium, and of Artistic Style | |
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Aspectual and Intrinsic Form versus Substantive Content of Artworks | |
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Inseparability versus Independence of Subject Matter | |
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DC Theory as an Eight-Factor Representational Theory | |
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A Naturalist Argument for the DC Theory | |
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Bibliography | |
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Subject Index | |
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Name Index | |