We communicate through various media\, and for various purposes. Pictures and words make meaning in different ways\, which offer different imaginative a nd expressive profiles for communication. I explore three differences betwe en imagistic and linguistic systems\, in terms of what contents they can re present\, how they express perspectives\, and the force with which they pre sent the perspectival contents they communicate\; and I explore the ensuing aesthetic tradeoffs they present.
Elisabe th Camp is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers. She obtained her PhD from th e University of California\, Berkeley\, held a post-doc at the Harvard Soci ety of Fellows\, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Rutgers in 2013. She is the author of more than thirty articles in the philosophy of language\, mind\, and aesthetics. Her work especially focus es on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit a standard propositionalist mo del of minds and languages\, including metaphor\, maps\, and animal cogniti on. Recent publications include an edited volume\, The Poetry of Emily Dic kinson: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press\, 2021)\; “Lang uage: Power Plays At The Edges Of Communication\,” in Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought (OUP 2020)l and “Imaginative Frames f or Scientific Inquiry: Metaphors\, Telling Facts\, and Just-So Stories” (in The Scientific Imagination\, OUP 2019).
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