Naturalism and the philosophy of colour ontology and perception

Mazviita Chirimuuta*

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The philosophy of colour is a subspeciality within the philosophy of mind that has been engaged in a long-standing and wide-ranging dialogue with the natural sciences; as such, it serves as a useful model for reflection on the current standing of naturalistic methodologies. This review divides into three sections. In Section 1, I examine work on the ontology of colour that grew out of the physicalist metaphysics of Frank Jackson and David Lewis. This is followed, in Section 2, with an exploration of recent philosophical research, which takes inspiration from the many special sciences of colour. In the concluding section, I evaluate the argument that naïve realism about colour is inconsistent with naturalism, in the light of proposals that the conception of naturalism should be broadened to a more liberal one.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere12649
JournalPhilosophy Compass
Volume15
Issue number2
Early online date8 Jan 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2020

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