The Red and the Real

This book offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. The author argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color — a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects...

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Autor principal: Cohen, Jonathan
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description This book offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. The author 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. The author 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1759262026-04-20T09:23:06Z The Red and the Real Cohen, Jonathan Color Functional roles Perceptual effects Relationalism Color relationalism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTN Philosophy: aesthetics This book offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. The author 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. The author 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. 2026-04-20T09:23:05Z 2026-04-20T09:23:05Z 2026-04-16T12:48:03Z 2009 book ONIX_20260415T184306_9780199556168_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112440 9780199556168 9780199692231 9780191570001 9780191609602 9780191701672 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175926 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112440/1/9780199556168.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556168.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556168.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780199556168 9780199692231 9780191570001 9780191609602 9780191701672 280 Oxford, United Kingdom open access
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The Red and the Real
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Relationalism
Color relationalism
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