CONTENTS

Early Stirrings – 1
Perception torn from thinking.

The Intelligence of Perception (i) – 13
Perception as cognition.

The Intelligence of Perception (ii) – 37
Subtracting the context.

Two and Two Together – 54
Relations depend on structure.

The Past in the Present – 80
Forces acting on memory.

The Images of Thought - 97
What are mental images like?

Concepts Take Shape - 116
Abstract gestures.

Pictures, Symbols, and Signs - 135
The functions of images.

What Abstraction Is Not - 153
A harmful dichotomy.

With Feet on the Ground - 188
Abstraction as withdrawal.

Thinking With Pure Shapes - 208
Numbers reflect life.

Words in Their Place - 226
Can one think in words?

Art and Thought - 254
Thinking in children's drawings.

Models for Theory - 274
Cosmological shapes.

Vision in Education - 294
What is art for?

Notes - 317
Bibliography - 325
Index - 339