Chris L Hardin
Biographic Data
| ID | 193518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris L Hardin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardin |
| SIGNATURE | HARDIN C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0175-4640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Churchland's Metamers
Paul Churchland proposed a conceptual framework for translating reflectance profiles into a space he takes to be the color qualia space. It allows him to determine color metamers of spectral surface reflectances without reference to the characteristics of visual systems, claiming that the reflectance classes that it specifies correspond to visually determined metamers. We advance several objections to his method, show that a significant number of…
A Tale of Hoffman
Explaining Basic Color Categories
This article surveys several lines of evidence that suggest a strong connection among the mechanisms of color vision, perceptually elementary hues, and naming basic colors. But important questions remain about the linkage between the shared human attributes of color perception and the development and structure of crosscultural basic color categories
Evan Thompson, Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception . London and New York, Routledge, 1995, paper £14.99
Sensory Qualities
Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
Van Brakel and the Not-So-Naked Emperor
Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow
Benedict de Spinoza: An Introduction
Qualia and Materialism: Closing the Explanatory Gap
Redness, an objective phenomenal property of apples, is identical with a certain wavelength triplet of electromagnetic reflection efficiencies. Warmth, an objective phenomenal property of objects, is identical with the mean level of the objects' microscopically embodied energies. Pitch, an objective phenomenal property of a sound, is identical with its oscillatory frequency. The electromagnetic and micromechanical properties out there in the obje…
In Defense of Convergent Realism
Many realists have maintained that the success of scientific theories can be explained only if they may be regarded as approximately true. Laurens Laudan has in turn contended that a necessary condition for a theory's being approximately true is that its central terms refer, and since many successful theories of the past have employed central terms which we now understand to be non-referential, realism cannot explain their success. The present pa…
Table-Turning, Parapsychology and Fraud
According to sceptics, all of the experiments of parapsychology may, so far, be divided into two classes. The first class consists of experiments which are, prima facie, poorly controlled and thus inconclusive. Those of the second class are properly controlled according to the standards of 'normal' psychological research, but contain insufficient safeguards against fraud on the part of both experimenters and subjects. The possibility of fraud nee…
Rationality and Disconfirmation
In a recent article in Social Studies of Science,' Michael Mahoney argues that scientists are not the paragons of intellectual and moral virtue that some have claimed them to be, but share to a considerable extent the vices of more ordinary folk. Readers of this journal will be familiar with the general range of considerations which Professor Mahoney adduces, so I shall not rehash them here. I wish, rather, to draw attention to some features of t…
A Modern Introduction to Logic . John W. Blyth Principles of Right Reason . Henry S. Leonard
In Defense of Convergent Realism
Many realists have maintained that the success of scientific theories can be explained only if they may be regarded as approximately true. Laurens Laudan has in turn contended that a necessary condition for a theory's being approximately true is that its central terms refer, and since many successful theories of the past have employed central terms which we now understand to be non-referential, realism cannot explain their success. The present pa…
Qualia and Materialism: Closing the Explanatory Gap
Redness, an objective phenomenal property of apples, is identical with a certain wavelength triplet of electromagnetic reflection efficiencies. Warmth, an objective phenomenal property of objects, is identical with the mean level of the objects' microscopically embodied energies. Pitch, an objective phenomenal property of a sound, is identical with its oscillatory frequency. The electromagnetic and micromechanical properties out there in the obje…
Explaining Basic Color Categories
This article surveys several lines of evidence that suggest a strong connection among the mechanisms of color vision, perceptually elementary hues, and naming basic colors. But important questions remain about the linkage between the shared human attributes of color perception and the development and structure of crosscultural basic color categories
Van Brakel and the Not-So-Naked Emperor
Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
Table-Turning, Parapsychology and Fraud
According to sceptics, all of the experiments of parapsychology may, so far, be divided into two classes. The first class consists of experiments which are, prima facie, poorly controlled and thus inconclusive. Those of the second class are properly controlled according to the standards of 'normal' psychological research, but contain insufficient safeguards against fraud on the part of both experimenters and subjects. The possibility of fraud nee…
A Modern Introduction to Logic . John W. Blyth Principles of Right Reason . Henry S. Leonard
Rationality and Disconfirmation
In a recent article in Social Studies of Science,' Michael Mahoney argues that scientists are not the paragons of intellectual and moral virtue that some have claimed them to be, but share to a considerable extent the vices of more ordinary folk. Readers of this journal will be familiar with the general range of considerations which Professor Mahoney adduces, so I shall not rehash them here. I wish, rather, to draw attention to some features of t…
Table-Turning, Parapsychology and Fraud
According to sceptics, all of the experiments of parapsychology may, so far, be divided into two classes. The first class consists of experiments which are, prima facie, poorly controlled and thus inconclusive. Those of the second class are properly controlled according to the standards of 'normal' psychological research, but contain insufficient safeguards against fraud on the part of both experimenters and subjects. The possibility of fraud nee…
In Defense of Convergent Realism
Many realists have maintained that the success of scientific theories can be explained only if they may be regarded as approximately true. Laurens Laudan has in turn contended that a necessary condition for a theory's being approximately true is that its central terms refer, and since many successful theories of the past have employed central terms which we now understand to be non-referential, realism cannot explain their success. The present pa…
Qualia and Materialism: Closing the Explanatory Gap
Redness, an objective phenomenal property of apples, is identical with a certain wavelength triplet of electromagnetic reflection efficiencies. Warmth, an objective phenomenal property of objects, is identical with the mean level of the objects' microscopically embodied energies. Pitch, an objective phenomenal property of a sound, is identical with its oscillatory frequency. The electromagnetic and micromechanical properties out there in the obje…
Benedict de Spinoza: An Introduction
Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow
Van Brakel and the Not-So-Naked Emperor
Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
Evan Thompson, Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception . London and New York, Routledge, 1995, paper £14.99
Sensory Qualities
Explaining Basic Color Categories
This article surveys several lines of evidence that suggest a strong connection among the mechanisms of color vision, perceptually elementary hues, and naming basic colors. But important questions remain about the linkage between the shared human attributes of color perception and the development and structure of crosscultural basic color categories
A Tale of Hoffman
Churchland's Metamers
Paul Churchland proposed a conceptual framework for translating reflectance profiles into a space he takes to be the color qualia space. It allows him to determine color metamers of spectral surface reflectances without reference to the characteristics of visual systems, claiming that the reflectance classes that it specifies correspond to visually determined metamers. We advance several objections to his method, show that a significant number of…
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Color perception and design (3 works) · Perception (3 works)