Capstone Seminar: Visual Representation and Visual Narrative

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Capstone seminar for senior Philosophy majors. This seminar examines the meaning of visual signs, through the lens of philosophy and cognitive science. In the first half, we'll focus on the meanings of pictures and maps, and their relationship to perception, geometry, knowledge, truth, and power. In the second half, we'll explore the ways that pictures are put together in comics and film to form visual narratives, with an emphasis on viewpoint, temporal order, character, and coherence.