Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 1999 - Volume 22, Issue 06  


Open Peer Commentary
Palmer: Color and consciousness

Subjectivity is no barrier

Alex Byrne a1
a1 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. abyrne@mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/byrne.html

Abstract

Palmer's “subjectivity barrier” seems to be erected on a popular but highly suspect conception of visual experience, and his “color room” argument is invalid.