Color and Color Perception: A Study in Anthropocentric Realism

Hilbert, David R.

ISBN 10: 0937073164 / ISBN 13: 9780937073162

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Informat, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Color and Color Perception: A Study in Anthropocentric Realism
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937073164
• ISBN 13: 9780937073162
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Colour has often been supposed to be a subjective property, a property to be analysed orretly in terms of the phenomenological aspects of human expereince. In contrast with subjectivism, an objectivist analysis of color takes color to be a property objects possess in themselves, independently of the character of human perceptual expereince. David Hilbert defends a form of objectivism that identifies color with a physical property of surfaces - their spectral reflectance. This analysis of color is shown to provide a more adequate account of the features of human color vision than its subjectivist rivals. The author's account of colro also recognises that the human perceptual system provides a limited and idiosyncratic picture of the world. These limitations are shown to be consistent with a realist account of colour and to provide the necessary tools for giving an analysis of common sense knowledge of color phenomena.

Book Description

David Hilbert defends a form of objectivism that identifies color with a physical property of surfaces - their spectral reflectance. This analysis of color is shown to provide a more adequate account of the features of human color vision than its subjectivist rivals.