Colour variation without objective colour

Abstract: Colour variation is the fact that what colour physical objects look to have depends on viewing conditions and a perceiver’s visual system. Both Colour Relationalists and Colour Eliminativists regard their analyses of colour variation as central to the justification for their respective views. Yet the analyses are decidedly different. Colour Relationalists assert that most instances of colour variation are veridical and infer from this that colours are relational properties of objects that are partly determined by perceivers. By contrast, Colour Eliminativists assert that colour variation is too unsystematic to ground the claim that many or most instances of colour variation are veridical. From this they infer that objects don’t have colours. I argue that the Eliminativist analysis is superior. On my view, the Relationalist account of veridical colour experience reduces to the assertion that objects have colour simply because they cause perceivers to have colour experiences of them..... https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/9183

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Colour variation without objective colour ; volume:3 ; year:2022 ; Philosophy and the mind sciences ; 3 (2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Brown, Derek H.

Further information

• DOI: 10.33735/phimisci.2022.9183
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023032918540612059404
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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