The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction to the philosophy of colour
	Why colour?
	Overview of the sections
	Omissions
	Notes
	References
Part I: The importance of colour to philosophy
	Chapter 1: Colour, colour experience, and the mind-body problem
		1 Colour and physicalism
		2 Colour and mentality
		3 Euthyphro questions
		4 Typing colour experiences by their phenomenal characters
		5 The Euthyphro question for colours and colour experiences
		6 Colour, colour experience, and the mind-body problem
		7 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Colour, scepticism, and epistemology
		1 Introduction
		2 Colour and the Pyrrhonian challenge
		3 Colour and the traditional problem of the external world
		4 Colour and the problem of acquaintance
		5 Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Philosophy of science
		1 Introduction
		2 Philosophy of colour and the history of science
		3 The primary-secondary distinction: Wilson’s deflationary approach
		4 Colour vision and scientific perspectivism
		5 Philosophy of colour as naturalized meta-physics
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Truth, vagueness, and semantics
		I The sorites paradox
		II Theories of vagueness
		III Is ‘true’ vague?
		IV Why does the major premise seem true?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: The logic of colour concepts
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Colour and the arts: chromatic perspectives
		1 Spatial and chromatic surrogacy
		2 Seeing space pictorially
		3 Chromatic pictorial seeing
		4 Collumination and chromatic perspective
		5 Perspective and constancy
		6 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: The analogy between colour and value
		1 Four versions of the analogy
		2 Possible disanalogies
		3 Uses of the analogy
		4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II: Interlude: the science and spaces of colour
	Chapter 8: The science of colour and colour vision
		1 Colour vision and colour science
		2 The optical process
		3 Colour in the environment
		4 Basic physiology of colour vision
		5 The psychophysics of colour
		6 Colour in the cortex
		7 Defects of colour vision and naming
		8 A nimal colour vision
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: Colour spaces
		1 Introduction
		2 Spaces of what, exactly?
		3 Attributes and spaces of perceived colour
		4 The diversity of colour spaces
		5 Conclusion
		6 Acknowledgements
		References
Part III: Colour phenomena
	Chapter 10: Unique hues and colour experience
		I Introduction
		II The structure of colour appearance
		III Colour and hue
		IV Colour as a unity
		V Does unique hue have a physiological counterpart?
		VI The variability of unique hue perception
		VII Conclusion
		VIII A cknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: Novel colour experiences and their implications
		1 What are novel colours and what should we call them?
		2 The non-novel colours
		3 Sources of evidence for experiences of novel colours
		4 The philosophical significance of experiences of novel colours
		5 Summary
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Colour synaesthesia and its philosophical implications
		1 Introduction
		2 Neural mechanisms
		3 Synaesthesia and strong representationalism
		4 Synaesthesia and functionalism
		5 Synaesthesia and theories of colour
		6 Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13: Spectrum inversion
		Introduction
		1 Direct objections to non-qualitative accounts of colour feeling
		2 Objections to representationalism
		3 What kind of possibility is involved?
		4 What kind of methodology is involved in affirming a possibility as being plausible?
		5 Common considerations against the inverted spectrum hypothesis
		6 The use of colour science to support the inverted spectrum hypothesis
		References
	Chapter 14: Interspecies variations
		1 Interspecies variations
		2 What is colour vision?
		3 What is colour?
		4 What is it like?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15: Colour illusion
		1 Illusion
		2 Illusion and the nature of colours
		3 Perceptual difference, illusion, and the nature of colours
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16: Colour constancy
		§0 What is colour constancy?
		§1 Colour constancy science
		§2 Colour constancy and ontology: the path to colour objectivism and beyond
		§3 Colour constancy and epistemology: the given in colour perception
		§4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Colour ontology
	Chapter 17: Objectivist reductionism
		1 Objectivist reductionism
		2 Motivations
		3 Objections
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18: Primitivist objectivism
		1 The argument from revelation
		2 Defensive views
		3 Distinct problems for each non-primitivist proposal
		4 A common source of problems for all non-primitivist proposals
		5 An argument from neo-pragmatism
		6 An argument from the nature of properties
		7 Summary
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 19: Colour relationalism
		1 What is it?: Exposition
		2 Why believe it?: Motivation
		3 No, really?: Objections
		4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 20: Monism and pluralism
		1 Monism and pluralism
		2 The argument from conflicting appearances
		3 Metaphysical accounting
		4 Objections and replies
		5 Summary
		References
	Chapter 21: Mentalist approaches to colour
		1 Mentalism in context
		2 What is at stake between the theories?
		3 Varieties of mentalism
		4 Problems for the sense-datum theory (i); indeterminacy and contradiction
		5 Problems for the sense-datum theory (ii) the ‘veil of perception’
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 22: Eliminativism
		Introduction
		1 Motivations
		2 Responses to eliminativism
		3 Standards of reality
		4 Colour experience in a colourless world
		Notes
		References
Part V: Colour experience and epistemology
	Chapter 23: How does colour experience represent the world?
		1 Representationalism about colour experience: the basic idea
		2 Response-independent representationalism
		3 Response-dependent representationalism
		4 Irrealist representationalism
		5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 24: Indirect realism
		1 Historical context
		2 Motivation for classical representationalism
		3 Two versions of indirect realism
		4 Jackson non-epistemic seeing
		5 Seeing-of and seeing-that
		6 Perkins’s version of Indirect Realism
		7 A hybrid version of Indirect Realism
		8 Indirect realism: the implications for colour
		9 Arguments for Indirect Realism and objections
		10 Indirect Realism in the context of psychology
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 25: Does that which makes the sensation of blue a mental fact escape us?
		1 The presence of redness in colour experience
		2 The physical bases of colour and colour experience
		3 Colour qualia
		4 Imagining
		5 The inverted spectrum
		References
	Chapter 26: Colour experiences and ‘look’ sentences
		Introduction
		What we mean by ‘look’ sentences
		Do we mean anything else by ‘look’?
		Do we mean anything else by ‘look’ sentences?
		References
Part VI: Language, categories, and thought
	Chapter 27: Colour, colour language, and culture
		I Introduction
		II Colour, colour language, and culture
		III Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 28: Colour categorization and categorical perception
		Introduction
		The perceptual salience theory
		Linguistic relativism
		Is colour perception categorical?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 29: Cognitive penetration and the perception of colour
		I Cognitive penetration and its general importance
		II Alleged cases of cognitive penetration of colour perception
		III The importance of colour perception research and the cognitive penetrability debate
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index