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Color Relationalism and Relativism
Author(s) -
Byrne Alex,
Hilbert David R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12243
Subject(s) - relativism , epistemology , cultural relativism , psychology , color vision , philosophy , artificial intelligence , political science , law , computer science , human rights
This paper critically examines color relationalism and color relativism, two theories of color that are allegedly supported by variation in normal human color vision. We mostly discuss color relationalism, defended at length in Jonathan Cohen's The Red and the Real , and argue that the theory has insuperable problems.