
Rediscovering Colors
A Study in Pollyanna Realism
M. Watkins(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 22. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 210 pages
978-94-010-3923-9 (ISBN)
Description
In
Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism
, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to science, or else nothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is that Watkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics of colors. Consequently, Watkins provides an account of what colors are, how they are related to the physical properties on which they supervene, and how colors can be causally efficacious without the threat of causal overdetermination. Along the way, he provides novel accounts of normal conditions and non-human color properties. The book will be of interest to any metaphysician and philosopher of mind interested in colors and color perception.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 210 p.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-010-3923-9 (9789401039239)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-0562-3
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Book
06/2002
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
1 Pollyanna Realism and the Simple Theory.- 2 Why Colors are Not Physical Properties.- 3 Why Colors are Not Relational Properties.- 4 Identifying Colors: Relationally Specifying a Nonrelational Property.- 5 Colors, Dispositions, and Causal Powers.- 6 A Simple Theory of Normal Conditions.- 7 Animals, the Color Blind, and Far Away Places.- 8 Ecce Colores.- References 195.- Index 203.