Colour Vision

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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 THE RECEIVED VIEW
	THE NEWTONIAN HERITAGE
		Newton?s experimentum crucis
		The Newtonian conception of colour
	PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES
	THE PROBLEM-SPACE OF THE RECEIVED VIEW
2 COLOUR VISION: RECENT THEORIES AND RESULTS
	APPROACHES TO COLOUR VISION
		Psychophysics and physiology
		Computational vision
	THE PHENOMENAL STRUCTURE OF COLOUR
	PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSICS
		Visual pigments, photoreceptors, and additive colour mixture
		Postreceptoral mechanisms and opponent processes
		Psychophysical issues about the postreceptoral channels
		Physiological issues about the postreceptoral channels
		Cortical connections
	COMPUTATIONAL COLOUR VISION
		Colour constancy and the ?natural image?
		Global computations and lightness
		Criticisms of the retinex theory
		The linear models framework (LMF)
		Spatial segmentation
		Summary
	LEVELS OF EXPLANATION AND COLOUR SPACE
		Levels of explanation
		Colour space: a resume
		The case of colour constancy
3 NATURALISTIC ONTOLOGIES
	EXPLANATION AND DESCRIPTIVE VOCABULARIES
	COMPUTATIONAL OBJECTIVISM
		Colour and wavelength
		Colour and surface reflectance: anthropocentric realism
			The argument from external irreducibility
	NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVISM
	BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND SUBJECTIVISM
4 THE COMPARATIVE ARGUMENT
	INTRODUCING COMPARATIVE COLOUR VISION
	COMPARATIVE COLOUR SPACES
		A bird?s-eye view
		Colour hyperspaces and novel colours
	THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF COLOUR VISION
		Molecular biology of the visual pigments and psychophysics
		Visual ecology
	THE COMPARATIVE ARGUMENT
		Computational objectivism revisited9
			The argument from perceiver-relativity
		Neurophysiological subjectivism revisited
5 THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW
	THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL
	PERCEPTION AND THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL
		Representationism revisited
		Gibson?s ?ecological approach?
		The ecological approach and computational vision
		Integrating computational vision, neuroscience, and the ecological level: an action-based paradigm
	WHERE IS COLOUR?
6 VISUAL EXPERIENCE AND THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW
	SENSATIONALISM
		Nagel and the subjective character of perceptual experience
		Novel colours and Jackson?s knowledge argument5
	COGNITIVISM: DENNETT?S DISQUALIFICATION OF QUALIA
	VISUAL EXPERIENCE, SCIENCE, AND THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW
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