Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism

by Michael Watkins, Michael D. Watkins, Michael Watkins

Book Overview

In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism , Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to science, or else nothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is that Watkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics of colors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140200737X
• ISBN13: 9781402007378
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.8"