1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

Edited By Derek H. Brown, Fiona Macpherson Copyright 2020
    516 Pages 45 Color & 16 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    516 Pages 45 Color & 16 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    516 Pages 45 Color & 16 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.





    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:









    • The Importance of Colour to Philosophy


    • The Science and Spaces of Colour


    • Colour Phenomena


    • Colour Ontology


    • Colour Experience and Epistemology


    • Language, Categories, and Thought.






    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.

    Introduction to the Philosophy of Colour Derek H. Brown and Fiona Macpherson  Part I: The Importance of Colour to Philosophy  1. Colour, Colour Experience, and the Mind-Body Problem Brian P. McLaughlin  2. Colour, Scepticism, and Epistemology Duncan Pritchard and Christopher Ranalli   3. Philosophy of Science Mazviita Chirimuuta  4. Truth, Vagueness, and Semantics Diana Raffman  5. The Logic of Colour Concepts Frederik Gierlinger and Jonathan Westphal  6. Colour and the Arts: Chromatic Perspectives John Kulvicki  7. The Analogy Between Colour and Value Joshua Gert  Part II: Interlude: The Science and Spaces of Colour  8. The Science of Colour and Colour Vision Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert  9. Colour Spaces David Briggs  Part III: Colour Phenomena  10. Unique Hues and Colour Experience Mohan Matthen  11. Novel Colour Experiences and their Implications Fiona Macpherson  12. Colour Synaesthesia and Its Philosophical Implications Berit Brogaard  13. Spectrum Inversion Peter W. Ross  14. Interspecies Variations Keith Allen  15. Colour Illusion Michael Watkins  16. Colour Constancy Derek H. Brown  Part IV: Colour Ontology  17. Objectivist Reductionism Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert  18. Primitivist Objectivism Joshua Gert  19. Colour Relationalism Jonathan Cohen  20. Monism and Pluralism Mark Eli Kalderon  21. Mentalist Approaches to Colour Howard Robinson  22. Eliminativism Wayne Wright  Part V: Colour Experience and Epistemology  23. How Does Colour Experience Represent the World? Adam Pautz  24. Indirect Realism Barry Maund  25. Does That Which Makes the Sensation of Blue a Mental Fact Escape Us? John Campbell  26. Colour Experiences and ‘Look’ Sentences Wylie Breckenridge  Part VI: Language, Categories, and Thought  27. Colour, Colour Language, and Culture Don Dedrick  28. Colour Categorization and Categorical Perception Robert Briscoe  29. Cognitive Penetration and the Perception of Colour Dustin Stokes.  Index

    Biography

    Derek H. Brown is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he is also Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. He is a co-editor of Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos (with Mélanie Frappier and Robert DiSalle, 2012).



    Fiona Macpherson, FRSE, MAE, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She has published numerous edited collections including Sensory Substitution and Augmentation (2018) and Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory and Phenomenal Presence (2018, both with Fabian Dorsch).