Promising Pictures: Depicting, Advertising, Instructing

Depictive pictures may be promising in at least three different senses, which are examined in this essay. The first concerns genuine acts of promising that involve pictorial representations, like gift cards displaying a present the promisor commits herself to give. In a second sense, advertising st...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:576e78cd28304569bbc50539de1679d92021-12-02T10:34:02ZPromising Pictures: Depicting, Advertising, Instructing10.13128/pam-80302280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/576e78cd28304569bbc50539de1679d92020-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/8030https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 Depictive pictures may be promising in at least three different senses, which are examined in this essay. The first concerns genuine acts of promising that involve pictorial representations, like gift cards displaying a present the promisor commits herself to give. In a second sense, advertising strategists use pictures to promise to consumers perfect pasta or empty beaches. A third sense amounts to pictures as promising if they are instructive. Such pictures can be used to learn some type of action, like the performance of a military salute or the crafting of some artifact. All three promissory uses of pictures exhibit normative forces related to commitments and entitlements regarding justified expectations. Jakob KrebsRosenberg & Sellierarticledeontic artifactsdirective picturesgraphic rulespictorial instructionvisual aidsAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 17 (2020)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
IT
topic deontic artifacts
directive pictures
graphic rules
pictorial instruction
visual aids
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
BJ1-1725
spellingShingle deontic artifacts
directive pictures
graphic rules
pictorial instruction
visual aids
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
BJ1-1725
Jakob Krebs
Promising Pictures: Depicting, Advertising, Instructing
description Depictive pictures may be promising in at least three different senses, which are examined in this essay. The first concerns genuine acts of promising that involve pictorial representations, like gift cards displaying a present the promisor commits herself to give. In a second sense, advertising strategists use pictures to promise to consumers perfect pasta or empty beaches. A third sense amounts to pictures as promising if they are instructive. Such pictures can be used to learn some type of action, like the performance of a military salute or the crafting of some artifact. All three promissory uses of pictures exhibit normative forces related to commitments and entitlements regarding justified expectations.
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title Promising Pictures: Depicting, Advertising, Instructing
title_short Promising Pictures: Depicting, Advertising, Instructing
title_full Promising Pictures: Depicting, Advertising, Instructing
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