What Are Colours?
Thanks to John Schwenkler for the invitation to write about my book, A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour (Oxford University Press, 2016). Colours are a prominent feature of the perceived world. They are...
View ArticleColour Constancy and the Mind-Independence of Colour
According to the naïve realist, colours are mind-independent properties of objects that are distinct from their physical properties. In today’s post I outline the argument for the first part of the...
View ArticleColours as Observational Properties
The second main claim made by the naïve realist is that colours are distinct from the physical properties of objects. In saying that colours are distinct from the physical properties of objects, the...
View ArticleQuietism, Naive Realism, and the Nature of Philosophy
One of the reasons why philosophical discussions of colour are interesting and important is that they bear on a number of wider philosophical questions. In today’s post I want to introduce some...
View ArticleColour and the Problem of Consciousness
How should we explain ‘what it is like’ to perceive colour? One of the reasons why naïve realist theories of colour are interesting is that they promise to contribute towards a solution to the problem...
View ArticleSymposium on Fischer et. al. ‘Experimental Ordinary Language Philosophy’
In ‘Experimental ordinary language philosophy: a cross-linguistic investigation of default inferences’, (Synthese, 2019) Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhard, Joachim Horvath and Hiroshi Ohtani seek to take...
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