{"product_id":"primitive-colors-a-case-study-in-neo-pragmatist-metaphysics-and-philosophy-of-perception-9780198785910","title":"Primitive Colors: A Case Study in Neo-Pragmatist Metaphysics and Philosophy of Perception","description":"Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them. He employs a general philosophical strategy--neo-pragmatism--which challenges an assumption made by virtually all other theories of color. Neo-pragmatism rejects the standard representationalist\u003cbr\u003estrategy for solving placement problems in philosophy, which relies on the existence of a substantive notion of reference and truth. Instead, it makes use of deflationary accounts of such semantic notions. Applied to the domain of color, the result is a view according to which colors are primitive\u003cbr\u003eproperties of objects, irreducible to physical or dispositional properties. In this way they are more like numbers, and less like natural kinds such as water or gold. Objective colors are also--contrary to current dogma--insufficiently determinate in their nature to allow them to be associated with\u003cbr\u003eprecise points in standard color spaces. A given color can present different veridical appearances in different viewing circumstances, and to different normal viewers. It is these appearances, which are to be understood in an adverbial way, that can be located in standard color spaces. In explaining\u003cbr\u003ethe distinction between objective color and color appearance, a central analogy to which Gert appeals is that between the perceptible three-dimensional shape of an object, and the various ways in which that shape appears from various perspectives.\u003cem\u003e Primitive Colors\u003c\/em\u003e also offers an account of color\u003cbr\u003econstancy, a moderated version of representationalism about visual experience, and a criticism of the thesis of the transparency of experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Gert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198785910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Gert, \u003cem\u003eHaserot Professor of Philosophy, The College of William and Mary, Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoshua Gert is the Francis S. Haserot Professor of Philosophy at The College of William and Mary. In addition to his work on color, he is also the author of Brute Rationality: Normativity and Human Action (2004) and Normative Bedrock: Response-Dependence, Rationality and Reasons (2012), both of which develop a particular account of rational action and normative practical reasons.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44759010803827,"sku":"9780198785910","price":148.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_010f7345-1032-4f51-aefa-f4db3ffc0922.jpg?v=1775950771","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/primitive-colors-a-case-study-in-neo-pragmatist-metaphysics-and-philosophy-of-perception-9780198785910","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}