The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen draws on color science, psychology, phenomenology, semantics, and ontologyin arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. INDICE: 1: Introduction: The Space of Options; THE CASE FOR COLOR RELATIONALISM; 2: The Argument From Perceptual Variation; 3: Variation Revisited: Objections and Responses; DEFENSEANDELABORATION:ARELATIONALIST'S GUIDE TO REPRESENTATION, ONTOLOGY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY; 4: Relationalism Defended: Linguistic andMental Representation of Color; 5: Relationalism Defended: Ontology; 6: Relationalism Defended: Phenomenology; ROLE FUNCTIONALISM; 7: A Role Functionalist Theory of Color; 8: Role Functionalism and Its Relationalist Rivals; SUMMARY; 9: Summary Conclusion; References; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969223-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés