Colours

Their Nature and Representation

Barry Maund (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-11012-9 (ISBN)

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The world as we experience it is full of colour. This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. The author provides a unified account of colour that shows why we experience the illusion and why the illusion is not to be dispelled but welcomed. He develops a pluralist framework of colour-concepts in which other, more sophisticated concepts of colour are introduced to supplement the simple concept that is presupposed in our ordinary colour experience. The discussion draws on philosophical and scientific literature, both historical and modern, but it is not technical, and will appeal to a broad range of philosophers, cognitive scientists and historians of science.

Part I. The Representation of Colour: Introduction to Part I; 1. Colour-as-we-experience-it; 2. Colours as virtual properties; 3. What colours are essentially; 4. The natural concept of colour; Part II. The Colours Objects Have: The Pluralist Framework: Introduction to Part II; 5. The pluralist framework; 6. Objectivist accounts of colour; 7. Revisionary accounts: objectivist and dispositionalist; Part III. Colours and Consciousness: Introduction to Part III; 8. Colour qualia; 9. The psychological reality of colour; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2009
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-521-11012-2 / 0521110122
ISBN-13	978-0-521-11012-9 / 9780521110129
Zustand	Neuware