The Red and the Real

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction: The Space of Options2 - The Argument From Perceptual Variation3 - Variation Revisited: Objections and Responses4 - Relationalism Defended: Linguistic and Mental Representation of Color5 - Relationalism Defended: Ontology6 - Relationalism Defended: Phenomenology7 - A Role Functionalist Theory of Color8 - Role Functionalism and Its Relationalist Rivals9 - Summary Conclusion

AUTORE

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199692231
• Dimensioni: 232 x 13.2 x 167 mm Ø 476 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 5 illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 278