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Colour constancy as counterfactual.

In this paper I argue that two standard characterizations of colour constancy are inadequate to the phenomenon. This inadequacy matters, since, I contend, philosophical appeals to colour constancy as a way of motivating illumination-independent conceptions of colour turn crucially on the shortcoming...

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Published in:Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 86; no. 1; pp. 61 - 93
Main Author: Cohen, Jonathan
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2008
Subjects:
Psychology of color
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Color vision
Philosophy
Sensory perception
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