Representação e realismo : um estudo sobre a natureza da imagem na obra de Nelson Goodman

The present study stands in the field of philosophy of art and its central theme is The problem of depiction. It takes as guidance the work of Nelson Goodman in this domain and his conventionalist and constructivist perspective on representation and image’s symbolic systems, as well as a comprehensive “picture theory” that can be deduced from his philosophy. It examines matters such as identity, classification and routes of reference of pictures that cut across multiple realms. It analyses different questions concerning depiction: representational and non-representational; literal and metaphorical; factual and fictional; diagrammatic or pictorial and artistic and nonartistic pictures. Finally, it debates the sometimes-misleading relationship between pictorial representation and pictorial realism, discussing arguments concerning resemblance, imitation, illusion, information and inculcatio