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Outside Color - Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy (Paperback)
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Outside Color - Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: The Mit Press
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An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of
color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color. Is
color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does
seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The
metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the
seventeenth century. In this book, M. Chirimuuta draws on
contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her
account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary
work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in
neuroscience and vision science to propose a novel theory of the
relationship between color and physical reality. Chirimuuta offers
an overview of philosophy's approach to the problem of color, finds
the origins of much of the familiar conception of color in
Aristotelian theories of perception, and describes the assumptions
that have shaped contemporary philosophy of color. She then reviews
recent work in perceptual science that challenges philosophers'
accounts of color experience. Finally, she offers a pragmatic
alternative whereby perceptual states are understood primarily as
action-guiding interactions between a perceiver and the
environment. The fact that perceptual states are shaped in
idiosyncratic ways by the needs and interests of the perceiver does
not render the states illusory. Colors are perceiver-dependent
properties, and yet our awareness of them does not mislead us about
the world. Colors force us to reconsider what we mean by accurately
presenting external reality, and, as this book demonstrates,
thinking about color has important consequences for the philosophy
of perception and, more generally, for the philosophy of mind.
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