Churchland's Metamers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8399295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rolf G Kuehni (North Carolina State University), Chris L Hardin (0000-0003-0175-4640, Syracuse University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-92 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axp021 |
| OpenAlex | W2021721096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
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 reflectance profiles are not placed into the space in agreement with the qualia solid, and produce two sets of counterexamples to his claim for metamers. 1. Introduction2. Preliminary Explanations and Objections 2.1. Color spaces and solids2.2. Visual metamers2.3. Matching and appearance2.4. Effect of light on appearance of objects3. Churchland's ‘Canonical Approximation’ Hypothesis4. Does the CA Cylinder House SSRs in Agreement with the Perceptual Color Solid?5. Two Sets of Metameric Counterexamples 5.1. Three metameric grays5.2. Three metameric yellows6. Birds, Bees, and Anthropocentrism Redux
Combinatorics · Computer vision · Counterexample · Epistemology · Linguistics · Perception · Qualia · Space (punctuation) · Visual space · Artificial Intelligence · Color perception and design · Color Science and Applications · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |