Colours: Their Nature and Representation (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

Type

Book

Authors

Barry Maund

ISBN 10

0521472733

ISBN 13

9780521472739

Tags

Physics, Logic & Language, Metaphysics, Logic

Description

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. He develops a pluralist framework of colour-concepts in which other, more sophisticated concepts of colour are introduced to supplement the simple concept that is presupposed in our ordinary colour experience. The discussion draws on philosophical and scientific literature, both historical and modern, but it is not technical, and will appeal to a broad range of philosophers, cognitive scientists and historians of science. - from Amzon

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