The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology

by Jonathan D. Cohen

Book Overview

The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color--a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles
involving perceptual effects on subjects. Cohen first argues (on broadly empirical grounds) for the more general relationalist view that colors are constituted in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199692238
• ISBN13: 9780199692231
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"