The red and the real an essay on color ontology

This title offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Cohen draws on color science, psychology, phenomenology semantics, and ontology in arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual...

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Main Author: Cohen, Jonathan D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009, 2009
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This title offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Cohen draws on color science, psychology, phenomenology semantics, and ontology in arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects
Physical Description:xvi, 260 p., [2] p. of plates ill. (some col.)
ISBN:9780191701672
019170167X