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Leading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about
color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools are applied to
the most sophisticated color science. Philosophers and scientists
have long speculated about the nature of color. Atomists such as
Democritus thought color to be "conventional," not real; Galileo
and other key figures of the Scientific Revolution thought that it
was an erroneous projection of our own sensations onto external
objects. More recently, philosophers have enriched the debate about
color by aligning the most advanced color science with the most
sophisticated methods of analytical philosophy. In this volume,
leading scientists and philosophers examine new problems with new
analytic tools, considering such topics as the psychophysical
measurement of color and its implications, the nature of color
experience in both normal color-perceivers and the color blind, and
questions that arise from what we now know about the neural
processing of color information, color consciousness, and color
language. Taken together, these papers point toward a complete
restructuring of current orthodoxy concerning color experience and
how it relates to objective reality. Kuehni, Jameson, Mausfeld, and
Niederee discuss how the traditional framework of a
three-dimensional color space and basic color terms is far too
simple to capture the complexities of color experience. Clark and
MacLeod discuss the difficulties of a materialist account of color
experience. Churchland, Cohen, Matthen, and Westphal offer
competing accounts of color ontology. Finally, Broackes and Byrne
and Hilbert discuss the phenomenology of color blindness.
Contributors Justin Broackes, Alex Byrne, Paul M. Churchland,
Austen Clark, Jonathan Cohen, David R. Hilbert, Kimberly A.
Jameson, Rolf Kuehni, Don I.A. MacLeod, Mohan Matthen, Rainer
Mausfeld, Richard Niederee, Jonathan Westphal
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