Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

Paul Hackett works at Emerson College, USA and is an academic visitor in the philosophy department, Oxford University, UK. He is a psychologist with research interests that cross other disciplines, including philosophy and neuroscience with a concentration on categorial behaviour.

Preface.- Chapter 1. Defining Two-Dimensional Abstract Art.- Chapter 2. Theorising Perception.- Chapter 3. Expanding Theoretical Complexity.- Chapter 4. Perceptual Content, Process and Categorial Ontologies.- Chapter 5. Mapping Sentence and Partial Order Mereology for Perceiving Abstract Art.