CFP: Seeing and Knowing (2/15/04; journal issue)
CFP: Variations: InSights (issue 12, 2004)
=93Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less fascinating than=20=
seeing.=94
J.W. Goethe
=93And the eyes of the two of them were opened, and they knew that they=20=
were naked=94 (Genesis 3.7). Seeing and knowing have always been very=20
closely related. Throughout the history of philosophy =96 from Plato to=20=
Descartes and Sloterdijk =96 the eye has occupied a prominent position =
in=20
philosophical discussions, especially as far as epistemological=20
questions are concerned. A look into both scientific and everyday=20
language reveals that a number of visual metaphors serve the purpose of=20=