| Color and Color Perception: A Study in Anthropocentric Realism Contributor(s): Hilbert, David R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0937073164 ISBN-13: 9780937073162 Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat OUR PRICE: $27.23 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics - Language Arts & Disciplines - Computers | Computer Graphics |
| Dewey: 152.145 |
| LCCN: 87027643 |
| Series: Lecture Notes |
| Physical Information: 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Colour has often been supposed to be a subjective property, a property to be analysed orretly in terms of the phenomenological aspects of human expereince. In contrast with subjectivism, an objectivist analysis of color takes color to be a property objects possess in themselves, independently of the character of human perceptual expereince. David Hilbert defends a form of objectivism that identifies color with a physical property of surfaces - their spectral reflectance. This analysis of color is shown to provide a more adequate account of the features of human color vision than its subjectivist rivals. The author's account of colro also recognises that the human perceptual system provides a limited and idiosyncratic picture of the world. These limitations are shown to be consistent with a realist account of colour and to provide the necessary tools for giving an analysis of common sense knowledge of color phenomena. |