This week at The Junkyard we’re hosting a symposium on Piotr Kozak’s recent book: Thinking in Images: Imagistic Cognition and Non-propositional Content. Today we begin with an introduction from Piotr Kozak. Commentaries will follow Tuesday through Thursday.

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When we are asked how many windows are in our flat, we will probably form and inspect a mental image of the flat and count the windows. If architects design a house, they use drawings. You may use a map to get from Berlin to Paris. These are instantiations of what can be called imagistic thinking. The main question of my book is what such thinking can be.