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The Content of Color Experience
Author(s) -
EGAN FRANCES
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00140.x
Subject(s) - citation , content (measure theory) , full color , art history , computer science , library science , art , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , optoelectronics
According to the central thesis of Seeing, Doing, and Knowing, sensory systems are automatic sorting machines that classify distal stimuli for the purposes of physical manipulation and investigation. The results of this classificatory activity are changed associative dispositions and conscious memories. The book is a detailed working out of the implications of this thesis, with an emphasis on perception of color. The central thesis is important and the arguments for it persuasive. Moreover, the book is rilled with a host of fascinating detail. But an important feature of the account the relativity of colors, and sense features more generally, to actions or tasks leads to serious trouble. According to the account developed in Seeing, Doing, and Knowing, colors are sense features: