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The Red and the Real

The Red and the Real An Essay on Color Ontology

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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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199556168
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 111
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 641g
Height: 241mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 20mm