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Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics

Following Nelson Goodman, Kulvicki takes depictions to differ from description in virtue of belonging to different kinds of symbol systems. He argues here that depictive symbol systems which are actually used don’t compete with each other syntactically or semantically; syntactic properties correspond to the same semantic properties in every depictive system, and vice versa. While the eight chapters are focused on very specific topics, they are accompanied by an introduction which helpfully sets them in the context of broader questions about the definition and nature of depiction. It points out that ‘the philosophy of depiction is usually thought of . . . as a sub-discipline in aesthetics. This is like conflating the philosophy of language with the philosophy of literature.’ Reading the essays in this volume should dispel this misapprehension.