Color and Color Perception: A Study in Anthropocentric Realism: 9 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Hilbert, David R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0937073156 ISBN 13: 9780937073155

Verlag: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

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• Verlag: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0937073156
• ISBN 13: 9780937073155
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 157
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