赤の存在論 The Red and the Real : An Essay on Color Ontology

Cohen, Jonathan

Oxford University Press（2011/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199692231
• DDC分類 111

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2009. Jonathan Cohen draws on color science psychology, phenomenology, semantics, and ontology in arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects.

Full Description

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 terms of relations between objects, perceivers, and viewing conditions. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections against this thesis, and argues that relationalism offers the best hope of respecting both empirical results and ordinary belief about color. He then defends the more specific role functionalist-account by contending that the latter is the most plausible form of color relationalism.

Contents

1. Introduction: The Space of Options ; THE CASE FOR COLOR RELATIONALISM ; 2. The Argument From Perceptual Variation ; 3. Variation Revisited: Objections and Responses ; DEFENSEANDELABORATION:ARELATIONALIST'S GUIDE TO REPRESENTATION, ONTOLOGY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY ; 4. Relationalism Defended: Linguistic and Mental Representation of Color ; 5. Relationalism Defended: Ontology ; 6. Relationalism Defended: Phenomenology ; ROLE FUNCTIONALISM ; 7. A Role Functionalist Theory of Color ; 8. Role Functionalism and Its Relationalist Rivals ; SUMMARY ; 9. Summary Conclusion ; References ; Index