Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: -- Toward a Cognitive Iconology -- The New Two Cultures -- Cognition + Iconology -- "Psychology" -- What's to Fear? -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 -- Cognitive Iconology: Understanding versus Explanation -- Arnheim's Woes -- An Example: Cross-Cultural Perception -- What does it mean to Explain Something? -- Ontological Priority -- Epistemic Priority -- Against Conflation -- Downward Conflation -- Separating Sociology from Psychology -- The Proper Place of Cultural Analysis -- What is Left Over once Society is Extracted? -- Upward Conflation -- Separating Biology from Psychology -- The Proper Place of Biological Analysis -- What is Left Over once Biology is Extracted? -- Stratified Explanation and Cognitive Glue -- Chapter 2 -- Fiction and Transcription: Two Ecologies of Perception -- Linear Perspective -- Drawing and the Naive Theory of Mind -- Two Ecologies of Perception -- The Ecology of Standard Graphic Communication -- The Ecology of Transcriptive Perspective -- Chapter 3 -- A Classification of Perspective "Corrections" in Images -- The Judgment of the Eye -- From Prospectiva Naturalis to Good Form -- Human Figures -- Representing Architecture -- Relating Space to Viewer -- Corrections and Distortions -- Chapter 4 -- Presence over Perspective: Portraits-in-Pictures -- Curious Images -- Perspective and Meta-Painting -- Occasions for Portraiture -- The Image without Presence -- The Image with Presence -- Problems of Reality in Virtual Portraits Parallel to the Picture Plane -- Presence, Absence and Perspective -- Chapter 5 -- Oblique Images from the Side and Below -- The Problem -- Discovering Oblique Viewing -- The Phenomenon Clarified -- Distinguished from Anamorphism -- Distinguished from Robust Perspectives -- Three Levels of Site-Specificity.

Viewing Pictures from the Side -- Viewing Pictures from Below -- Oblique Perception and Cultural Explanations -- Chapter 6 -- Acting Irrational around Art -- Are Objects Alive? -- A Real Complementary Solution: Cognitive Glue -- Similarity and Contagion -- Similarity and Contagion with Images -- Witnessing Miraculous Behavior -- Iconoclasm -- Society: The Focalizer -- Conclusion -- Cognitive Proclivities for the Study of Art -- Tendencies are Not Probabilities -- Gestalt Theory as Mediator -- Bibliography -- Index.