Authors love when their books are being read. They love it even more when their books are being discussed. I’ve happily been in this position where the commentators have taken their time and effort to read my book and share their ideas. I am very grateful to Marcin Milkowski, Mariela …
Piotr Kozak’s insightful Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023) offers an original contribution to the philosophy and psychology of imagistic thinking. He carefully examines some challenges against imagistic thinking (esp. Ch. 2), and then develops an account of imagistic content (Ch. 6) and of imagistic thinking in light of measurement theory …
In his book Thinking with images, Kozak starts from the assumption that any theory of thinking must face three challenges: the epistemological, the semantical, and the metaphysical. So, the book can be seen as an intent to develop a theory of imaginistic thinking that meets these challenges. To do that, …
In his Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023), Piotr Kozak defends the view that thinking in images in possible. The main arguments against the idea that one can think in images are two-fold. The first argument is that images are only instrumental and cognitively inferior, and knowledge traditionally consists of true …
Let me start with a couple of examples. Look at the night sky and try to find the Big Dipper. At first, you see an unordered magnitude of astronomical objects. A star chart can guide you in your task. The chart helps you to localize objects in the night sky. …
