Incollection,
Chapter 7 The philosophy of color
volume 1 of \AZimuth\, North-Holland, (1998)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1387-6783(98)80010-X
Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the philosophy of color. A problem that has long preoccupied philosophers is whether color qualities are to be located in the physical world, independent of the consciousness of perceivers, or whether they are mind-dependent phenomena. There are two questions that intrigue philosophers. The first one is that, how can we reconcile the picture of the world presented to us by science with the view of the world that naturally suggests itself to common sense? Second, are color sensations (and other sensations and feelings) identical with brain states, or different from them? In this chapter, an examination is undertaken on the issue between dualism and materialism by looking at three such pictures, first picture Blind Mary, the second Leibniz's Mill, and the third Chromatic Inversion along with their associated arguments, and it is seen how well they survive analysis.
