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John Kulvicki

Associate Professor
308 Thornton Hall
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There are two major strands in my research. The first focuses on perception. How do perceptual states represent and thus make us aware of the environment? How do colors and other so-called 'secondary' qualities differ from shapes and other primary qualities? How should we explain the conscious aspects of perception, or what it is like to see red things, smell roses, and taste wine? The second focuses on the nature of pictorial representation. What makes pictures different from other kinds of representations like diagrams and descriptions? What makes some pictures more realistic than others? How do we use pictures and other kinds of representations as aids to learning about the world around us?

Selected Publications:

• "Pictorial Diversity," in Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction, ed. C. Abell & K. Bantinaki (Oxford University Press, 2010), 25-51.
• "Knowing with Images: Medium and Message." Philosophy of Science 77(2) 2010: 295-313.
• "Introspective Availability." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80(1) 2010: 208-228.
• On Images: Their Structure and Content. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
• "Perceptual content is vertically articulate." American Philosophical Quarterly 44(4) 2007.
• "What is what it's like? Introducing perceptual modes of presentation." Synthese 156(2) 2007.

Courses

Fall 2011

• Phil 50 (FSP) Special Topics in Philosophy: Illusions

Winter 2012

• Phil 35 (2) Philosophy of Mind

Spring 2012

• Phil 14 (2) Modern Philosophy: British Empiricism

Summer 2012

• Non-teaching term
  

Fall 2012

• Phil 3 (11) Reason and Argument
• Phil 80 (2A) Advanced Seminar: Images!

Winter 2013

• Phil 27 (2) Philosophy of Science

Spring 2013

• Phil 23 (2) Philosophy of Art