This week's current projects, 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room
will be Catharine Abell on "Expression, Representation and
Interpretation"
Abstract
In this paper, I seek to answer two questions. Firstly, what is it for a
representational work to express a psychological state? Secondly, what
is
the relation between representation and expression? In other words, what
role does a work’s representational content play in determining what it
expresses, and what role does what it expresses play in determining
what it
represents? I will first offer an account of expression in the
representational arts and then use it to illuminate the relation between
representation and expression. I will argue that, while a work’s
explicit
representational content plays an important role in determining what it
expresses, its expressive content plays an important role in
determining its
representational content, more broadly construed. In particular, I will
argue that a work’s expressive content plays an important role in
determining what is true in the work.
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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