The target article is an attempt to make some progress on the problem of color realism. Are
objects colored? And what is the nature of the color properties? We defend the view that …

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space
semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A Mark of the Mental, Karen …

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their
relation to reality. In the second edition of this popular book, William Fish introduces the …

The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about
what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role …

Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produc'd for this opinion to be
satisfactory, viz. that deriv'd from the variations of those impressions, even while the external …

Colors are of philosophical interest for a number of reasons. One of the most important
reasons is that color raises serious metaphysical issues, concerning the nature both of …

Experimental philosophy is often presented as a new movement that avoids many of the
difficulties that face traditional philosophy. This article distinguishes two views of …

Primary quality theories of colour claim that colours are intrinsic, objective, mind-
independent properties of external objects. However, a recent, empirically motivated …

Blue and yellow, bitter or sweet, can never be false ideas: these perceptions in the mind are
just such as they are there, answering the powers appointed by God to produce them; and …

In this paper I propose and defend an account of color that I call color functionalism. I argue
that functionalism is a non-traditional species of primary quality theory, and that it …