The Red and the Real

An Essay on Color Ontology
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969223-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

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 this thesis, and argues that relationalism offers the best hope of respecting both empirical results and ordinary belief about color. He then defends the more specific role functionalist-account by contending that the latter is the most plausible form of color relationalism.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; psychologists and vision scientists working on colour perception.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: The Space of Options
THE CASE FOR COLOR RELATIONALISM
2: The Argument From Perceptual Variation
3: Variation Revisited: Objections and Responses
DEFENSEANDELABORATION:ARELATIONALIST'S GUIDE TO REPRESENTATION, ONTOLOGY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY
4: Relationalism Defended: Linguistic and Mental Representation of Color
5: Relationalism Defended: Ontology
6: Relationalism Defended: Phenomenology
ROLE FUNCTIONALISM
7: A Role Functionalist Theory of Color
8: Role Functionalism and Its Relationalist Rivals
SUMMARY
9: Summary Conclusion
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, Jonathan
Jonathan Cohen is an associate professor in the department of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a faculty member of UCSD's Interdiciplinary Cognitive Science Program.

Jonathan Cohen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a faculty member of UCSD's Interdiciplinary Cognitive Science Program.