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Peter Alward

Disciplines:
philosophy/philosophy of language
aesthetics

Summary

Canadian philosopher who has worked on the relationship between language and pictures in representational art.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the analysis of visual depiction — what makes a picture represent what it represents — and the relationship between pictorial and linguistic representation.

Historical Influences

Kendall Walton Nelson Goodman

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Aesthetics

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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