Colour fascinates all of us, and scientists and philosophers have sought to understand the true nature of colour vision for many years. In recent times, investigations into colour vision have been one of the main success stories of cognitive science, for each discipline within the field - neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, and philosophy - has contributed significantly to our understanding of colour. Evan Thompson's book is a major contribution to this interdisciplinary project. Colour Vision provides an accessible review of the current scientific and philosophical discussions of colour vision. Thompson steers a course between the subjective and objective positions on colour, arguing for a relational account. This account develops a novel `ecological' approach to colour vision in cognitive science and the philosophy of perception. It is vital reading for all cognitive scientists and philosophers whose interests touch upon this central area.
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Color has been a favorite example of philosophers ever since David Hume worried about the missing shade of blue, but most of their thought experiments, we can now see, have been misinformed. Thomson shows how current work in science on the nature of color and color vision transforms our philosophical vision of colors, clarifying (if not settling) new controversies while closing down old--and eternally tempting--confusions. Informed philosophical discussion about color begins here.
–Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University
–Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University
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Evan Thompson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.
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- Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Colour Vision (Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series) by David Ottoson on 6 pages
- Visual Perception: The Neurophysiological Foundations by Lothar Spillmann on 6 pages
- Mind and Cognition: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by William Lycan on 5 pages
- Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein on page 265, page 277, and Back Matter
- An Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks (Neural Networks, Foundations to Applications Series) by Joel L. Davis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Rethinking Decoration: Pleasure and Ideology in the Visual Arts by David Brett on 4 pages
- The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco J. Varela in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics by Steven Fesmire in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Color for Science, Art and Technology, Volume 1 (AZimuth) by K. Nassau on page 218, and page 219
- Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science (Writing Science) by Jean Petitot in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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