How Colours Matter to Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Silva, Marcos

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the logical and linguistic aspects of colours as philosophical problems

Offers a historically informed discussion of colours

Coverage bridges continental and analytic philosophy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319673981
• Artikelnr.: 53059638

Autorenporträt

Marcos Silva is currently Associate Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil. His work deals mainly with Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language and Wittgenstein's Philosophy. He already presented some topics of his research in several countries, as Portugal, Italy, Belgium, France, Austria, England and Germany. He was already a visiting researcher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2012) in Leipzig, Germany (2013-2014), in Fortaleza, Brazil (2015), and in Pittsburgh, USA (2017).  In 2017, he received the Fulbright Junior Faculty Member award.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. History of Philosophy and Aesthetics.- 1. Plato's Distinction Between Hue, Saturation and Brightness (Txapartegi).- 2. Dispositionalism and Fictionalism in Ancient Greek (Maund).- 3. Newton's Theory of Light and Colours (Wash).- 4. Goethe Contra Newton on Colours, Light, and the Philosophy of Science (Mueller).- 5. Impossible Colours: Wittgenstein and the Naturalist's Challenge (Lugg).- 6. Husserl on the Material a Priori - The Question of Colours (Da Silva).- 7. Colors: Presentation and Representation in the Fine Arts (Bueno).- 8. The Sound that Shines: Toward a Phenomenology of "Sound Colors" (Barros).- Part II. Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind.- 9. How Primary Qualities are Qualitative and Colors are Primary (Ross).- 10. Colours in Radical Embodied-Enactive Cognition (Hutto).- 11. Light dawns over the colour solid: Katz and Bühler (Mulligan).- 12. Colors in Hermeneutic's Phenomenology (Ainbinder).- 13. Subjectivity and Normativity in Colour Distinction (Stekeler-Weithofer).- 14. Black and Gold: Trading in Veridicality for Non-Arbitrariness (Myin).- 15. Explaining Colour Phenomenology (Unwin).- Part III. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Logic.- 16. Things are not what they seem (Priest).- 17. Colors as Referents of Vague Predicates (Raffman).- 18. Colour, Vagueness, and Cognitive Neuropsychology (Davies).- 19. Proofs Versus Experiments: Wittgensteinian Themes Surrounding the Four-Color Theorem (Pereira).- 20. Colour in Cognition, Language and Philosophy (Jaspers).- 21. On the role of Colours in Ramsey's Theorem of Finite Combinatorics (Carnielli).- 22. Logic and Metalogic of Colors (Beziau).