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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Color and Color Perception
• Subtitle: A Study in Anthropocentric Realism
• Author: David R. Hilbert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• EAN: 9780937073162
• ISBN: 0937073164
• ID: 04762566
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Weight: 266 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 1987

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