What question did this study set out to answer?

To investigate the nature of colour and its representation, examining various frameworks and theories.

September 1, 1998Philosophy and Phenomenological Research165 citations

Colours: Their Nature and Representation

CLCharles LandesmanThe Graduate Center, CUNY BMBarry MaundThe University of Western Australia

Key Points

To investigate the nature of colour and its representation, examining various frameworks and theories.
Analyzes different perspectives on colour experience and representation.
Examines objectivist and dispositionalist accounts of colour.
Explores the relationship between colour and consciousness.
Identifies colour as a complex entity with both physical and psychological dimensions.
Establishes the validity of various accounts of colour within a pluralist framework.
Demonstrates the significance of colour qualia in understanding perception.

Abstract

Part I. The Representation of Colour: Introduction to Part I 1. Colour-as-we-experience-it 2. Colours as virtual properties 3. What colours are essentially 4. The natural concept of colour Part II. The Colours Objects Have: The Pluralist Framework: Introduction to Part II 5. The pluralist framework 6. Objectivist accounts of colour 7. Revisionary accounts: objectivist and dispositionalist Part III. Colours and Consciousness: Introduction to Part III 8. Colour qualia 9. The psychological reality of colour Bibliography Index.

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