Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the RainbowThis expanded edition of C. L. Hardin's ground-breaking work on color features a new chapter, Further Thoughts: 1993, in which the author revisits the dispute between color objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of color vision, and brings to bear new data on individual variability in color perception. |
Contents
Perceiving lightness and darkness | 19 |
Chromatic vision | 26 |
Chromatic response | 36 |
Object metamerism adaptation and contrast | 45 |
Some mechanisms of chromatic perception | 52 |
II | 59 |
III | 113 |
OTHER MINDS | 134 |
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