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--- abstract: "This article was written as a commentary on an article by Peter W. Ross entitled \"The Location Problem for Color Subjectivism\" [Consciousness and Cognition 10(1), 42-58 (2001)], and was published together with that article (and with other commentaries, and Ross's reply). However, it is by means essential for you to have read Ross's piece in order to understand the approach to the \"hard problem\" of consciousness proposed here. Ross's article defends a view called \"color physicalism\" or color realism that holds (simplifying somewhat) that colors are real physical properties (in typical cases, spectral reflectances of object surfaces). This is in opposition to what is probably a more widely held \"subjectivist\" view of color, that holds that color qualities exist only in the mind. In my commentary I suggest that a realist view of qualitative properties, such as Ross's, together with a direct, active view of perception, and a concept of \"extended mind\" (Clark & Chalmers, 1998) may provide the materials for a real solution to the notorious \"hard problem\" of consciousness. I sketch this solution in outline." altloc: - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/nthomas/col-real.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: 'Ross, P. W. (2001). The Location Problem for Color Subjectivism. Consciousness and Cognition, 10(1), 42-58' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Thomas given: Nigel J.T. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2001 date_type: published datestamp: 2004-08-10 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/37/49 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3749 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/3749/1/colreal.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'consciousness, hard problem, color, qualia, imagery, active vision' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:39 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 140-145 pubdom: FALSE publication: Consciousness and Cognition publisher: Academic Press refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Aloimonos, Y., Ed. (1993). Active perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Ballard, D. H. (1991). Animate vision. Artificial Intelligence 48, 57-86. Ballard, D. H., Hayhoe, M. M., Pook, P. K., & Rao, R. P. N. (1997). Deictic codes for the embodiment of cognition. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 20, 723-767. Blake, A., & Yuille, A. Eds. (1992). Active vision. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chalmers, D. J. (1995). Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 2, 200-219. Clarke, A. (1997). Being there: Putting brain, body, and world together again. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Clarke, A. & Chalmers, D. J. (1998). The Extended Mind. Analysis 58,10-23. Dennett, D. C. (1988). Quining Qualia. In A. Marcel & E. Bisiach (Eds.), Consciousness in contemporary science, pp. 42-71. New York: Oxford University Press. Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Landy, M. S., Maloney, L. T., & Pavel, M., Eds. (1996). Exploratory vision: The active eye. New York: Springer-Verlag. Locke, J. (1700). An essay concerning human understanding. (Edition of S. Pringle-Pattison, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924.) Martin, C. B. 1997. On the need for properties: The road to pythagoreanism and back. Synthese 112, 192-231. O'Reagan, J. K. (1992). Solving the "real" mysteries of visual perception: The world as an outside Memory. Canadian Journal of Psychology 46, 461-488. Swain, M. J., & Stricker, M. A. (1993). Promising directions in active vision. International Journal of Computer Vision 11, 109-126. Thomas, N. J. T. (1999). Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination? An Active Perception Approach to Conscious Mental Content. Cognitive Science 23, 207-245. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:53:12 subjects: - phil-mind - percep-cog-psy - phil-metaphys succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Color Realism: Toward a Solution to the "Hard Problem"' type: journalp userid: 311 volume: 10