creators_name: Dedrick, Don
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-12-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:52
metadata_visibility: show
title: Can colour be reduced to anything?
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: colour, reduction, Hardin, Matthen, chromatic subjectivism, chromatic objectivism.
abstract: C. L. Hardin has argued that the colour opponency of the vision system leads to chromatic subjectivism: chromatic sensory states reduce to neurophysiological states. Much of the force of Hardin's argument derives from a critique of chromatic objectivism. On this view chromatic sensory states are held to reduce to an external property. While I agree with Hardin's critique of objectivism it is far from clear that the problems which beset objectivism do not apply to the subjectivist position as well. I develop a critique of subjectivism that parallels Hardin's anti-objectivist argument.
date: 1996
date_type: published
publication: Philosophy of Science Association 96 Supplementary Issue, Part I
volume: 63
pagerange: 134-142
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Dedrick, Don  (1996) Can colour be reduced to anything?  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/374/1/PSA.html