Colours
Subtitle: their nature and representation
By: Barry Maund.
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Color; Colors; Color vision
Other titles: Colors
Description: The world as we experience it is full of colour. This book defends the radical thesis that no physical object has any of the colours we experience it as having. The author provides a unified account of colour that shows why we experience the illusion and why the illusion is not to be dispelled but welcomed.

He develops a pluralist framework of colour concepts in which other, more sophisticated concepts of colour are introduced to supplement the simple concept that is presupposed in our ordinary colour experience. The discussion draws on philosophical and scientific literature, both historical and modern, but it is not technical and will appeal to a broad range of philosophers, cognitive scientists, and historians of science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) and index.