The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

<p>From David Hume’s famous puzzle about "the missing shade of blue," to current research into the science of colour, the topic of colour is an incredibly fertile region of study and debate, cutting across philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics, as well as psychology. Debates about the nature of our experience of colour and the nature of colour itself are central to contemporary discussion and argument in philosophy of mind and psychology, and philosophy of perception.</p><p>This outstanding Handbook contains 29 specially commissioned contributions by leading philosophers and examines the most important aspects of philosophy of colour. It is organized into six parts:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The Importance of Colour to Philosophy</li> <li>The Science and Spaces of Colour</li> <li>Colour Phenomena</li> <li>Colour Ontology</li> <li>Colour Experience and Epistemology</li> <li>Language, Categories, and Thought.</li> </ul><p>The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics, as well as for those interested in conceptual issues in the psychology of colour.</p> <p>Introduction to the Philosophy of Colour <i>Derek H. Brown and Fiona Macpherson </i><b>Part I: The Importance of Colour to Philosophy </b>1. Colour, Colour Experience, and the Mind-Body Problem <i>Brian P. McLaughlin </i>2. Colour, Scepticism, and Epistemology <em>Duncan Pritchard </em><em>and </em><em>Christopher Ranalli</em> <em> </em>3. Philosophy of Science <i>Mazviita Chirimuuta </i>4. Truth, Vagueness, and Semantics <i>Diana Raffman </i>5. The Logic of Colour Concepts <i>Frederik Gierlinger and Jonathan Westphal </i>6. Colour and the Arts: Chromatic Perspectives <i>John Kulvicki </i>7. The Analogy Between Colour and Value <i>Joshua Gert </i><b>Part II: Interlude: The Science and Spaces of Colour </b>8. The Science of Colour and Colour Vision <i>Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert </i>9. Colour Spaces <i>David Briggs </i><b>Part III: Colour Phenomena </b>10. Unique Hues and Colour Experience <i>Mohan Matthen </i>11. Novel Colour Experiences and their Implications <i>Fiona Macpherson </i>12. Colour Synaesthesia and Its Philosophical Implications <i>Berit Brogaard </i>13. Spectrum Inversion <i>Peter W. Ross </i>14. Interspecies Variations <i>Keith Allen </i>15. Colour Illusion <i>Michael Watkins </i>16. Colour Constancy <i>Derek H. Brown </i><b>Part IV: Colour Ontology </b>17. Objectivist Reductionism <i>Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert </i>18. Primitivist Objectivism <i>Joshua Gert </i>19. Colour Relationalism <i>Jonathan Cohen </i>20. Monism and Pluralism <i>Mark Eli Kalderon </i>21. Mentalist Approaches to Colour <i>Howard Robinson </i>22. Eliminativism <i>Wayne Wright </i><b>Part V: Colour Experience and Epistemology </b>23. How Does Colour Experience Represent the World? <i>Adam Pautz </i>24. Indirect Realism <i>Barry Maund </i>25. Does That Which Makes the Sensation of Blue a Mental Fact Escape Us? <i>John Campbell </i>26. Colour Experiences and ‘Look’ Sentences <i>Wylie Breckenridge </i><b>Part VI: Language, Categories, and Thought </b>27. Colour, Colour Language, and Culture <i>Don Dedrick </i>28. Colour Categorization and Categorical Perception <i>Robert Briscoe </i>29. Cognitive Penetration and the Perception of Colour <i>Dustin Stokes. Index</i></p>