Rediscovering Colors A Study in Pollyanna Realism
In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to sci...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Philosophical Studies Series
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Pollyanna Realism and the Simple Theory
- 2 Why Colors are Not Physical Properties
- 3 Why Colors are Not Relational Properties
- 4 Identifying Colors: Relationally Specifying a Nonrelational Property
- 5 Colors, Dispositions, and Causal Powers
- 6 A Simple Theory of Normal Conditions
- 7 Animals, the Color Blind, and Far Away Places
- 8 Ecce Colores
- References 195
- Index 203