Colours - Their Nature and Representation

Klappentext This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. Zusammenfassung The world as we experience it is full of colour. This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. The author provides a unified account of colour that shows why we experience the illusion and why the illusion is not to be dispelled but welcomed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Representation of Colour: Introduction to Part I; 1. Colour-as-we-experience-it; 2. Colours as virtual properties; 3. What colours are essentially; 4. The natural concept of colour; Part II. The Colours Objects Have: The Pluralist Framework: Introduction to Part II; 5. The pluralist framework; 6. Objectivist accounts of colour; 7. Revisionary accounts: objectivist and dispositionalist; Part III. Colours and Consciousness: Introduction to Part III; 8. Colour qualia; 9. The psychological reality of colour; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Barry Maund, Barry (University of Western Australia Maund, Maund Barry
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521110129
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11012-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Mathematics & science, Phenomenology and Existentialism