Outside Color Chirimuuta Mazviita Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh
An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing…
Specifikacia Outside Color Chirimuuta Mazviita Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh
An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the seventeenth century. In this book, M. Chirimuuta draws on contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in neuroscience and vision science to propose a novel theory of the relationship between color and physical reality.Chirimuuta offers an overview of philosophy's approach to the problem of color, finds the origins of much of the familiar conception of color in Aristotelian theories of perception, and describes the