Colour : a philosophical introduction
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Colour : a philosophical introduction
(Aristotelian Society series, v. 7)
B. Blackwell, 1991, c1987
2nd ed
- pbk
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Note
Previously published as: Colour : some philosophical problems from Wittgenstein. 1987
"New paperback edition 1991" -- t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work subjects some of the statements in Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Colour" (What do we mean when we talk about colour? Why can't there be brown light or anything transparent white?) to a detailed examination that draws on philosophy, phenomenology, psychology and physics. The author rejects Wittgenstein's grammatical explanation of colours, as well as the physicalists' reduction of colours to light emissions of specific wavelengths. He argues that in the phenomenon of colour lie clues to the question of the relation between the physical and mental sides of human nature.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- white
- brown
- grey
- black
- red, green and physicalism
- impossible colours and the interpretation of colour space
- simplicity
- sensations and science.
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