Do Colours Look Like Dispositions? Reply to Langsam and Others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10690598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Byrne (0000-0003-3652-1492, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Alex Byrne |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 203 |
| Pages | 238-245 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2001.00227.x |
| OpenAlex | W2156910647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
Dispositional theories of colour have been attacked by McGinn and others on the ground that ‘Colours do not look like dispositions’. Langsam has argued that on the contrary they do, in ‘Why Colours Do Look Like Dispositions’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 50 (2000), pp. 68–75. I make three claims. First, neither side has made its case. Secondly, it is true, at least on one interpretation, that colours do not look like dispositions. Thirdly, this does not show that dispositionalism about colours is false
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Figure–ground · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Perception · Categorization, perception, and language · Color perception and design · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
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