The red and the real an essay on color ontology
The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color - a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving per...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798026406719 |
| Summary: | The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color - a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. Cohen first argues (on broadly empirical grounds) for the more general relationalist view that colors are constituted in terms of relations betweenobjects, perceivers, and viewing conditions. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections against t |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199692231 9781282346413 9786612346415 9780191570001 |
