Selected publications

Edited Collection

Abell, C. and Bantinaki, K. eds, (forthcoming 2010) Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chapters in Edited Collections

Abell, C. and Bantinaki, K. (forthcoming 2010) “Introduction”, in Abell, C. and Bantinaki, K. eds, Philosophical Perspectives on Picturing, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Abell, C. (forthcoming 2010) “The Epistemic Value of Photographs”, in Abell, C. and Bantinaki, K. eds, Philosophical Perspectives on Picturing, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

(*Please note: electronic copies of most papers are available from my Manchester webpage)

Abell, C. (2009) “Canny Resemblance”, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 118, No. 2, pp. 183-224 (16 000 words).

Abell, C. (2007) "Pictorial Realism", The Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 1-17.

Abell, C. (2006) "Realism and the Riddle of Style", Contemporary Aesthetics, http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/journal.php.

Abell, C. (2005) "Against Depictive Conventionalism", The American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp 185-197.

Abell, C. (2005) "On Outlining the Shape of Depiction", Ratio, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, pp 27-38.

Abell, C. (2005) "McIntosh¹s Unrealistic Picture of Peacocke and Hopkins on Realistic Pictures", British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 64-68.

Abell, C. (2005) "Pictorial Implicature", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 63, No. 1, pp 55-66.

Abell, C. (2005) "The Public Cost of Private Ownership of Artworks", Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp 76-81.

Abell, C. and Currie, G. (1999) "Internal and External Pictures", Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp 429-445.

Book Reviews

Abell, C. (2006) "Review of Dominic McIver Lopes, Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures", The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 468-470..

Abell, C. (2005) "Review of Z. Pylyshyn, Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think", Psyche, psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/

Current research

Catharine works predominantly on the nature of depiction (that form of representation unique to figurative pictures). She is also interested in related issues in the philosophy of mind - such as the nature of mental imagery - and in various issues in aesthetics.

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