Color Ontology and Color Science
Published on 21. May 2010
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Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-262-51375-3 (ISBN)
Description
Leading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools are applied to the most sophisticated color science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
71 s/w Abbildungen, 3 Tabellen
71 b&w illus., 3 tables; 74 Illustrations
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
1139 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51375-3 (9780262513753)
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Persons
Jonathan Cohen is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
Mohan Matthen is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.
Paul M. Churchland is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
Mohan Matthen is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.
Jonathan Cohen is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
Jonathan Westphal is a Permanent Member of the Senior Common Room at University College, Oxford. He is the author of Colour: A Philosophical Introduction.
Alex Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at MIT and the coeditor of Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson (2001) and Readings on Color, volumes 1 and 2 (1997), all published by the MIT Press.
Mohan Matthen is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.
Paul M. Churchland is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
Mohan Matthen is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.
Jonathan Cohen is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
Jonathan Westphal is a Permanent Member of the Senior Common Room at University College, Oxford. He is the author of Colour: A Philosophical Introduction.
Alex Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at MIT and the coeditor of Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson (2001) and Readings on Color, volumes 1 and 2 (1997), all published by the MIT Press.
Editor
DirectorPrinceton University
ProfessorUniversity of Toronto
Contributions
North Carolina State University
University of California, San Diego
ProfessorUniversity of Toronto
ProfessorChristian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
ProfessorOlshausenstr.
University of California, San Diego
ProfessorUniversity of California
ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut
Content
Introduction I Color and Structure: Current Views 1 1 Color Spaces and Color Order Systems A Primer Rolf G. Kuehni 3 2 On the Reality (and Diversity) of Objective Colors How Color-Qualia Space Is a Map of Reflectance-Profile Space Paul M. Churchland 37 3 Color Experience A Semantic Theory Mohan Matthen 67 4 More than Three Dimensions What Continuity Considerations Can Tell Us about Perceived Color Reinhard Niederée 91 5 Color within an Internalist Framework The Role of "Color" in the Structure of the Perceptual System Rainer Mausfeld 123 II Color Spaces and Explanatory Spaces 149 6 Into the Neural Maze Donald I. A. MacLeod 151 7 Where in the World Color Survey Is the Support for Color Categorization Based on the Hering Primaries? Kimberly A. Jameson 179 8 Color, Qualia, and Attention A Nonstandard Interpretation Austen Clark 203 9 It's Not Easy Being Green Hardin and Color Relationalism Jonathan Cohen 229 10 How Can the Logic of Color Concepts Apply to Afterimage Colors? Jonathan Westphal 245 III Color Blindness 257 11 How Do Things Look to the Color-Blind? Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert 259 12 What Do the Color-Blind See? Justin Broackes 291 Contributors Index