Color and Color Perception : A Study in Anthropocentric Realism Paperback
by David R. Hilbert
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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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- Pages:156 pages
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:30/06/1987
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- ISBN:9780937073162
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:156 pages
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:30/06/1987
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- ISBN:9780937073162
