The red and the real : an essay on color ontology / Jonathan Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Jonathan D., 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color (Philosophy).

Color--Psychological aspects.

Color.

Colors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Essay on color ontology

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color - a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. Cohen first argues (on broadly empirical grounds) for the more general relationalist view that colors are constituted in terms of relations between objects, perceivers, and viewing conditions. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections against t

Contents:

The space of options

The argument from perceptual variation

Variation revisited : objections and responses

Relationism defended : linguistic and mental representation of color

Relationism defended : ontology

Relationism defended : phenomenology

A role functionalist theory of color

Role functionalism and its relationalist rivals.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-969223-8

1-282-34641-5

9786612346415

0-19-157000-1

OCLC:

656784351