Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; psychologists and vision scientists working on colour perception.
Jonathan Cohen, University of California, San Diego
"In his admirable and engaging book, Jonathan Cohen defends relationalism about color. Roughly, relationalism is the traditional view that colors are constituted in terms of relations between objects and subjects... Cohen's book provides the most complete and sophisticated case to date that the considerable benefits of relationalism outweigh its costs. In addition, it contains important and thorough discussions of nearly every rival theory of color. Cohen presents his ideas admirably. This is the most important book on color in some time." - Adam Pautz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
1: Introduction: The Space of Options THE CASE FOR COLOR RELATIONALISM 2: The Argument From Perceptual Variation 3: Variation Revisited: Objections and Responses DEFENSEANDELABORATION:ARELATIONALIST'S GUIDE TO REPRESENTATION, ONTOLOGY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY 4: Relationalism Defended: Linguistic and Mental Representation of Color 5: Relationalism Defended: Ontology 6: Relationalism Defended: Phenomenology ROLE FUNCTIONALISM 7: A Role Functionalist Theory of Color 8: Role Functionalism and Its Relationalist Rivals SUMMARY 9: Summary Conclusion References Index
