Plato’s Mathematical Psychophysics of Color

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ID22134382
AutoresPaul Redding (0000-0003-3368-4587, The University of Sydney, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume10
Fascículo2
Páginas47
Data de publicação2025-04-20
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2409-9287 • E-ISSN: 2409-9287
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/philosophies10020047
OpenAlexW4409607269
IdiomaEN
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Aristotle is often regarded as providing a potentially appropriate model for a naturalistic human psychology that is able to reconcile the commonly opposed normative or “manifest” and factual or “scientific” images of the world and restore to the world the qualities that constitute its value. Such Aristotelian features were taken up after Newton by Goethe in his Theory of Color in his attempt to restore the actual color to the world that had seemingly been drained of it by Newtonian science. Here, I argue that beneath the “modificationalist” elements that Goethe took from Aristotle lies a mathematical approach to color originating in Plato that exploits similarities between color and tonal consonances and dissonances. The logical structure of Goethe’s color theory has recently been investigated by proponents of “universal logic”, but only when this theory is viewed against the background of Plato’s appropriation of Pythagorean harmonic theory does its full explanatory potential become apparent

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Color vision · Perception · Psychophysics · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Color perception and design · Computer Science · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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