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Introduction to the Philosophy of Colour
Derek H. Brown and Fiona Macpherson Part I: The Importance of Colour to Philosophy 1. Colour, Colour Experience, and the Mind-Body Problem
Brian P. McLaughlin 2. Colour, Scepticism, and Epistemology
Duncan Pritchard and Christopher Ranalli 3. Philosophy of Science
Mazviita Chirimuuta 4. Truth, Vagueness, and Semantics
Diana Raffman 5. The Logic of Colour Concepts
Frederik Gierlinger and Jonathan Westphal 6. Colour and the Arts: Chromatic Perspectives
John Kulvicki 7. The Analogy Between Colour and Value
Joshua Gert Part II: Interlude: The Science and Spaces of Colour 8. The Science of Colour and Colour Vision
Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert 9. Colour Spaces
David Briggs Part III: Colour Phenomena 10. Unique Hues and Colour Experience
Mohan Matthen 11. Novel Colour Experiences and their Implications
Fiona Macpherson 12. Colour Synaesthesia and Its Philosophical Implications
Berit Brogaard 13. Spectrum Inversion
Peter W. Ross 14. Interspecies Variations
Keith Allen 15. Colour Illusion
Michael Watkins 16. Colour Constancy
Derek H. Brown Part IV: Colour Ontology 17. Objectivist Reductionism
Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert 18. Primitivist Objectivism
Joshua Gert 19. Colour Relationalism
Jonathan Cohen 20. Monism and Pluralism
Mark Eli Kalderon 21. Mentalist Approaches to Colour
Howard Robinson 22. Eliminativism
Wayne Wright Part V: Colour Experience and Epistemology 23. How Does Colour Experience Represent the World?
Adam Pautz 24. Indirect Realism
Barry Maund 25. Does That Which Makes the Sensation of Blue a Mental Fact Escape Us?
John Campbell 26. Colour Experiences and 'Look' Sentences
Wylie Breckenridge Part VI: Language, Categories, and Thought 27. Colour, Colour Language, and Culture
Don Dedrick 28. Colour Categorization and Categorical Perception
Robert Briscoe 29. Cognitive Penetration and the Perception of Colour
Dustin Stokes. Index
Summary
This outstanding Handbook contains 29 contributions by leading philosophers and examines the most important aspects of philosophy of colour. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, epistemology, metaphysics and aesthetics.
