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Colours: Their Nature and Representation (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) - Softcover

Maund, Barry

 
9780521110129: Colours: Their Nature and Representation (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521110122 ISBN 13: 9780521110129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The world as we experience it is full of colour. This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. The author provides a unified account of colour that shows why we experience the illusion and why the illusion is not to be dispelled but welcomed. He develops a pluralist framework of colour-concepts in which other, more sophisticated concepts of colour are introduced to supplement the simple concept that is presupposed in our ordinary colour experience. The discussion draws on philosophical and scientific literature, both historical and modern, but it is not technical, and will appeal to a broad range of philosophers, cognitive scientists and historians of science.

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Book Description

The world as we experience it is full of colour. This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. The author provides a unified account of colour that shows why we experience the illusion and why the illusion is not to be dispelled but welcomed.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521110122
ISBN 13 
9780521110129
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
268