Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism / Edition 1

Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism / Edition 1

by M. Watkins
ISBN-10:
140200737X
ISBN-13:
9781402007378
Pub. Date:
06/30/2002
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
ISBN-10:
140200737X
ISBN-13:
9781402007378
Pub. Date:
06/30/2002
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism / Edition 1

Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism / Edition 1

by M. Watkins

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Overview

In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to science, or else nothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is that Watkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics of colors. Consequently, Watkins provides an account of what colors are, how they are related to the physical properties on which they supervene, and how colors can be causally efficacious without the threat of causal overdetermination. Along the way, he provides novel accounts of normal conditions and non-human color properties. The book will be of interest to any metaphysician and philosopher of mind interested in colors and color perception.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781402007378
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 06/30/2002
Series: Philosophical Studies Series , #88
Edition description: 2002
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Pollyanna Realism and the Simple Theory.- 2 Why Colors are Not Physical Properties.- 3 Why Colors are Not Relational Properties.- 4 Identifying Colors: Relationally Specifying a Nonrelational Property.- 5 Colors, Dispositions, and Causal Powers.- 6 A Simple Theory of Normal Conditions.- 7 Animals, the Color Blind, and Far Away Places.- 8 Ecce Colores.- References 195.- Index 203.
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