Colours : their nature and representation / Barry Maund.
Colours : their nature and representation / Barry Maund.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Date
1995.
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N111.1/18
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English
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Physical content
xv, 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Colour-as-we-experience-it -- 2. Colours as virtual properties -- 3. What colours are essentially -- 4. The natural concept of colour -- 5. The pluralist framework -- 6. Objectivist accounts of colour -- 7. Revisionary accounts: objectivist and dispositionalist -- 8. Colour qualia -- 9. The psych...
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
The world as we experience it is full of colour. This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. The author provides a unified account of colour that shows why we experience the illusion and why the illusion is not to be dispelled but welcomed. He develops a pluralist framework of colo...
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Colours : their nature and representation / Barry Maund.
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Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) and index.
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N111.1/18
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74VMlQaw7wDO
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ISBN
0521472733 (hardback)
9780521472739 (hardback)
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111.1
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991003443399702626
