Color and Color Perception: A Study in Anthropocentric Realism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780937073162)

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.

Author: David R. Hilbert
ISBN-10: 0937073164
ISBN-13: 9780937073162
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 11/30/1987
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback