Seeing red: The metaphysics of colours without the physics

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (1):33-52 (2005)
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By treating colours as sui generis intrinsic properties of objects we can maintain that (1) colours are causally responsible for colour experiences (and so agree with the physicalist) and (2) colours, along with the similarity and difference relations that colours bear to one another, are presented to us by casual observation (and so agree with the dispositionalist). The major obstacle for such a view is the causal overdetermination of colour experience. Borrowing and expanding on the works of Sydney Shoemaker and Stephen Yablo, the paper offers a solution

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Mental causation.Stephen Yablo - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (2):245-280.
How to speak of the colors.Mark Johnston - 1992 - Philosophical Studies 68 (3):221-263.
Causality and properties.Sydney Shoemaker - 1980 - In Peter van Inwagen (ed.), Time and Cause: Essays Presented to Richard Taylor. D. Reidel. pp. 109-35.

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