Employment
2021 – present. Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College.
2010 – 2021. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College.
2004 – 2010. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College.
2003 – 2004. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Carleton University, Ottawa.
2001 – 2003. PNP Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis.
.
Education
2001. PhD in Philosophy, University of Chicago. Advisor: Murat Aydede.
1995. AB with Honors in Philosophy, Princeton University.
.
Books
Modeling the Meanings of Pictures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Images. London: Routledge, 2014.
On Images: Their Structure and Content. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
.
Articles
Soon. Depicting properties’ properties. Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Soon. Varieties of transparency. The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies. K. Purgar, ed. Palgrave Macmillan.
Soon. Holey images and the roles of realism. Art, Representation, and Make-Believe. S. Sedivy, ed. London: Routledge.
Soon. Prosthetic arts and the objects of perception. Art and Philosophy. A. King and C. MagUidhir, eds. Oxford University Press.
2020. Borgesian maps. Analytic Philosophy. Online first. With Roberto Casati and John Zeimbekis.
2020. Colour and the arts: Chromatic perspectives. Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Colour. D. Brown and F. MacPherson, eds. London: Routledge: 91-106.
2018. Art made for pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures. J. Pelletier and A. Voltolini, eds. London: Routledge: 182-200. With Bence Nanay.
2017. Recording and representing, analog and digital. Giving a Damn. Z. Adams and J. Browning, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2017. Auditory perspectives. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception. B. Nanay, ed. Milton Park: Routledge: 83-94.
2015. Maps, pictures, and predication. Ergo 2(7).
2015. Analog representation and the parts principle. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6(1): 165 – 180.
2015.(2013 online). Information theory. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception, M. Matthen, ed. Oxford: OUP: 734-754.
2014. Sound stimulants: Defending the stable disposition view. Perception and its Modalities, D. Stokes, , M. Matthen, S. Biggs, eds. Oxford: OUP, 205 – 221.
2014. Beholders’ shares and the languages of art. Meditations on a Heritage, P. Taylor, ed. London: Paul Holberton, 127-138.
2011. Twofoldness and visual awareness. Bilder – Sehen – Denken, K. Sachs-Hombach & R. Totzke, eds. Cologne: H. von Halem Verlag: 66 – 92.
2010. Pictorial diversity. Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction. C. Abell & K. Bantinaki, eds. Oxford: OUP: 25 – 51.
2010. Knowing with images: medium and message. Philosophy of Science 77(2) 295 – 313.
2010. Introspective availability. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80(1) 208 – 228.
2009. Heavenly sight and the nature of seeing-in. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67(4) 387 – 397.
2008. The nature of noise. Philosophers’ Imprint, 8(11) 1 – 16.
2008. Artifact expression. New Waves in Aesthetics. K. Stock and K. Thomson-Jones, eds. Palgrave Macmillan: 84 – 104.
2007. Perceptual content is vertically articulate. American Philosophical Quarterly 44(4) 357 – 369.
2007. What is what it’s like? Introducing perceptual modes of presentation. Synthese 156(2) 205 – 229.
2006. Pictorial realism as verity. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64(3) 343 – 354.
2005. Perceptual content, information, and the primary/secondary quality distinction. Philosophical Studies 122(2) 103 – 132.
2004. Isomorphism in information-carrying systems. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85(4) 380 – 395.
2003. Image structure. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61(4) 323 – 340.
.
Shorter Pieces
2014. Pictorial representation. Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed., M. Kelly, ed. Oxford: OUP, vol.2, 322 – 326..
2012. Imaging performance. Imagens de Uma Ausência. M. Brilhante, F. Figueiredo, & P. Magalhães, eds. Lisbon: Colibri, 43 – 57.
2012. Visual arts. Continuum Companion to Aesthetics. Anna Christina Ribeiro, ed., London: Continuum: 171- 83.
2006. Pictorial representation. Philosophy Compass 1(6) 535 – 546.
2006. Naturalism. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. K. Brown, ed. Oxford: Elsevier: Vol. 8, 553 – 555.
2003. Hue magnitudes and revelation. Comment on Byrne & Hilbert: Color Realism and Color Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26(1) 36 – 37.
.
Book Reviews
2012. Michael Newall: What is a Picture? Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (ndpr.org).
2008. Casey O’Callaghan: Sounds: A philosophical theory. Mind 117 1112-1116.
2007. Dominic Lopes: Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating pictures. Dialogue 46(2) 412-414.
2005. Keith Stenning: Seeing Reason: Language and image in learning to think. Mind 114 461-465.
2003. Michael Thau: Consciousness and Cognition. Philosophical Psychology 16(1) 176-179.
.
john kulvicki 