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  title info:
    title: Primitive colors
    sub title: a case study in neo-pragmatist metaphysics and philosophy of perception
  name:
    name part: Gert, Joshua
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them. He employs a general philosophical strategy--neo-pragmatism--which challenges an assumption made by virtually all other theories of color. Neo-pragmatism rejects the standard representationalist strategy for solving "placement problems" in philosophy, which relies on the existence of a substantive notion of reference and truth. Instead, it makes use of deflationary accounts of such semantic notions. Applied to the domain of color, the result is a view according to which colors are primitive properties of objects, irreducible to physical or dispositional properties. In this way they are more like numbers, and less like natural kinds such as water or gold. Objective colors are also--contrary to current dogma--insufficiently determinate in their nature to allow them to be associated with precise points in standard color spaces. A given color can present different veridical appearances in different viewing circumstances, and to different normal viewers. It is these appearances, which are to be understood in an adverbial way, that can be located in standard color spaces. In explaining the distinction between objective color and color appearance, a central analogy to which Gert appeals is that between the perceptible three-dimensional shape of an object, and the various ways in which that shape appears from various perspectives. 'Primitive Colors' also offers an account of color constancy, a moderated version of representationalism about visual experience, and a criticism of the thesis of the transparency of experience.
  table of contents: An unmysterious color primitivism -- Color primitivism and neo-pragmatism -- A realistic color realism -- A hybrid view -- Color constancy -- Rival views : endowing objects with many colors -- Friendlier rivals : making color experience more complex -- Representationalism and the transparency of experience.
  note: Joshua Gert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Color (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Perception (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: First philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Colors
  subject:
    topic: Couleur (Philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Perception (Philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Métaphysique
  subject:
    topic: Couleurs
  subject:
    topic: symbolic color
  subject:
    topic: colors (hues or tints)
  subject:
    topic: perception
  subject:
    topic: metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: color (perceived attribute)
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: First philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Color (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Perception (Philosophy)
  classification: B105.C455 G47 2017
  classification: 121/.35
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)973921022
  identifier: 9780191840579
  identifier: 0191840572
  identifier: 9780191088995
  identifier: 0191088994
  identifier: 9780198785910
  identifier: 0198785917
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170327
    record change date: 20260319163721.0
    record identifier: in00005714598
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng