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Primitive Colors

By Joshua Gert

Primitive Colors

By Joshua Gert

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Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them. He employs a general philosophical strategy--neo-pragmatism--which challenges an assumption made by virtually all other theories of color. Neo-pragmatism rejects the standard representationaliststrategy for solving placement problems in philosophy, which relies on the existence of a substantive notion of reference and truth. Instead, it makes use of deflationary accounts of such semantic notions. Applied to the domain of color, the result is a view according to which colors are primitiveproperties of objects, irreducible to physical or dispositional properties. In this way they are more like numbers, and less like natural kinds such as water or gold. Objective colors are also--contrary to current dogma--insufficiently determinate in their nature to allow them to be associated withprecise points in standard color spaces. A given color can present different veridical appearances in different viewing circumstances, and to different normal viewers. It is these appearances, which are to be understood in an adverbial way, that can be located in standard color spaces. In explainingthe distinction between objective color and color appearance, a central analogy to which Gert appeals is that between the perceptible three-dimensional shape of an object, and the various ways in which that shape appears from various perspectives. Primitive Colors also offers an account of colorconstancy, a moderated version of representationalism about visual experience, and a criticism of the thesis of the transparency of experience.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2017-09-06
Publication Date:
2017-09-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198785917
ISBN13:
9780198785910
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
540 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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