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Color relations and the power of complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

C. L. Hardin
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 12344-1170 chardin1@twcny.rr.com

Abstract

Color-order systems highlight certain features of color phenomenology while neglecting others. It is misleading to speak as if there were a single “psychological color space” that might be described by a rather simple formal structure. Criticisms of functionalism based on multiple realizations of a too-simple formal description of chromatic pheno-menal relations thus miss the mark. It is quite implausible that a functional system representing the full complexity of human color phenomenology should be realizable by radically different qualitative states.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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