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From David Hume’s famous puzzle about ""the missing shade of blue,"" to current research into the science of colour, the topic of colour is an incredibly fertile region of study and debate, cutting across philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics, as well as psychology. Debates about the nature of our experience of colour and the nature of colour itself are central to contemporary discussion and argument in philosophy of mind and psychology, and philosophy of perception. This outstanding Handbook contains 29 specially commissioned contributions by leading philosophers and examines the most important aspects of philosophy of colour. It is organized into six parts: The Importance of Colour to Philosophy The Science and Spaces of Colour Colour Phenomena Colour Ontology Colour Experience and Epistemology Language, Categories, and Thought The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics, as well as for those interested in conceptual issues in the psychology of colour.

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Author:   Derek H. Brown (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Fiona Macpherson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.560kg
ISBN:  

9780415743037

ISBN 10:   0415743036
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   28 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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Derek H. Brown is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he is also Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. He is a co-editor of Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos (with Mélanie Frappier and Robert DiSalle, 2012). Fiona Macpherson, FRSE, MAE, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She has published numerous edited collections including Sensory Substitution and Augmentation (2018) and Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory and Phenomenal Presence (2018, both with Fabian Dorsch).

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