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Introduction.Alex Byrne and David Hilbert "Colour Realism and Colour Science", BBS, vol. 26, 2003. Sections 1 & 2. |
Colour Illusions |
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Causes of Colour. Causes of Colour Website; Clyde Hardin (pages 1-7) ,Color for Philosophers Supplemental Reading: Original Article by Kurt Nassau from Scientific Armerican Causes of Color |
Causes of Colour |
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Colour Mechanisms.For Background on Vision, please read Hardin: The Camera & the Eye. Perceiving Lightness and Darkness.Chromatic Vision; Chromatic Response. Solomon & Lennie |
Colour Physiology Part 1 |
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The Phenomenal Space & Metamerism. Hardin, The Structure of Phenomenal Hues. Austen Clark "Quality Space" Printable version of this chapter can be found in Clarks' book Theory of Sentience. |
Phenomenology |
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Variations in Human Colour Vision. This topic has been cancelled. |
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Colour Vision in Other Species. Thompson, Varela & Palacios Ways of Coloring Important: Start reading at Section 2.0, The Comparative Argument |
Color Vision in Other Species |
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Dispositionalism (Positive View) Gilbert Harman "Explaining Objective Colors in Terms of Subjective Experience" |
Harman's Dispositionalism |
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Dispositionalism (Negative View) Barry Stroud, The Quest for Reality, Ch. 4; Hardin Chapter DELETED FROM SYLLABUS |
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Relationalism. Cohen On Error Cohen, "A Relationalist Manifesto" |
Cohen's Relationalism |
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Primitivism. "A Simple View of Colour" John Campbell |
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A Clash of Concepts? Mark Johnston, "How to Speak of The Colors" |
Johnston's Dispositionalism |
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Irrealism Hardin "The Virtues of Illusion" Velleman and Boghosian |
Hardin's Irrealism |
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Spectral Reflectance Realism Bryne & Hilbert above in (1). Remainder of original main article (not the commentaries that follow). |
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Objections to SSR See responses to B&H. Chirimuuta "Reflectance Realism and Colour Constancy: What would count as Scientific Evidence...?" |
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Recasting |
Kathleen's Recasting |
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Polarization In Cuttlefish, Shashar et al (1996). In Octopus, Sashar & Cronin (1995) "Polarization Vision: A Uniform Sensory Capacity?" by Wehner. "Desert Ant Navigation" by Wehner. Two articles on Stomatopods (The Mantis Shrimp): "Parallel Processing & Image Analysis in the Eyes of the Mantis Shrimp" (this covers both polarization and colour vision) "Eye Design & Color Signalling in the Mantis Shrimp" |
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Cerebral Achromatopsia: Heywood, Cowey & Newcombe |
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Colour Synaesthesia Ramachandran & Hubbard |
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