RED & THE REAL C

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-955616-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen

Cohen, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: The Space of Options

- THE CASE FOR COLOR RELATIONALISM

- 2: The Argument From Perceptual Variation

- 3: Variation Revisited: Objections and Responses

- DEFENSEANDELABORATION:ARELATIONALIST'S GUIDE TO REPRESENTATION, ONTOLOGY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY

- 4: Relationalism Defended: Linguistic and Mental Representation of Color

- 5: Relationalism Defended: Ontology

- 6: Relationalism Defended: Phenomenology

- ROLE FUNCTIONALISM

- 7: A Role Functionalist Theory of Color

- 8: Role Functionalism and Its Relationalist Rivals

- SUMMARY

- 9: Summary Conclusion

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Cohen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a faculty member of UCSD's Interdiciplinary Cognitive Science Program.