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Primitive Colors - A Case Study in Neo-pragmatist Metaphysics and Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover)
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Primitive Colors - A Case Study in Neo-pragmatist Metaphysics and Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover)
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Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and
of our perception of them. He employs a general philosophical
strategy - neo-pragmatism - which challenges an assumption made by
virtually all other theories of color. Neo-pragmatism rejects the
standard representationalist strategy for solving "placement
problems" in philosophy, which relies on the existence of a
substantive notion of reference and truth. Instead, it makes use of
deflationary accounts of such semantic notions. Applied to the
domain of color, the result is a view according to which colors are
primitive properties of objects, irreducible to physical or
dispositional properties. In this way they are more like numbers,
and less like natural kinds such as water or gold. Objective colors
are also - contrary to current dogma - insufficiently determinate
in their nature to allow them to be associated with precise points
in standard color spaces. A given color can present different
veridical appearances in different viewing circumstances, and to
different normal viewers. It is these appearances, which are to be
understood in an adverbial way, that can be located in standard
color spaces. In explaining the distinction between objective color
and color appearance, a central analogy to which Gert appeals is
that between the perceptible three-dimensional shape of an object,
and the various ways in which that shape appears from various
perspectives. Primitive Colors also offers an account of color
constancy, a moderated version of representationalism about visual
experience, and a criticism of the thesis of the transparency of
experience.
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