The Red and the Real

An Essay on Color Ontology
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969223-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 476 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.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; psychologists and vision scientists working on colour perception.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung

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)

Cohen, Jonathan
Jonathan Cohen is an associate professor in the department of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a faculty member of UCSD's Interdiciplinary Cognitive Science Program.

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.