28 & 30 Jan |
0.1 |
Course Introduction: the Philosophical Problems of Color |
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Readings |
Chirimuuta, Outside Color Ch. 1 |
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Unit 1 |
Issues in Color Science |
4 & 6 Feb |
1.1 |
Basics of Color Vision |
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Readings |
Byrne & Hilbert, “The Science of Color and Color Vision” |
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Hardin, Color for Philosophers Ch. 1 |
11 & 13 Feb |
1.2 |
Functions of Human Color Perception |
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Readings |
Johnson & Mullen, “Color in the Cortex” |
18 & 20 Feb |
1.3 |
Color Perception in Nonhuman Animals |
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Matthen, “Novel Colours in Animal Perception” |
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Brown, “Colour Manipulation and Comparative Colour” |
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Unit 2 |
Color Irrealism & Subjectivism |
25 & 27 Feb |
2.1 |
An Error Theory of Color Experience |
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Readings |
Boghossian & Velleman, “Colour as a Secondary Quality” |
3 & 5 Mar |
2.2 |
What Do We Want From a Theory of Color? |
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Readings |
Johnston, “How to Speak of the Colors” |
10 & 12 Mar |
2.3 |
Critiques of Dispositionalism |
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Readings |
Byrne & Hilbert, “Are Colors Secondary Qualities?” |
16–27 Mar |
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Classes Cancelled Due to COVID-19 |
2 Mar |
2.4 |
“Realism Enough”: Color Relationalism |
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Readings |
Chirimuuta & Kingdom, “The Uses of Colour Vision” |
9 Apr |
2.5 |
Color Relationalism Cont’d |
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Readings |
Gupta, “M. Chirimuuta’s Adverbialism about Color” |
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Unit 3 |
Color Objectivism |
16 Apr |
3.1 |
Colors as Physical Properties |
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Readings |
Byrne & Hilbert, “Objectivist Reductionism” |
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3.2 |
Colors as Physical Properties, Cont’d |
23 Apr |
Readings |
Allen, “Colour Physicalism, Naïve Realism, and the Argument from Structure” |
30 Apr |
3.3 |
Primitivism: the “Simple View” of Color |
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Readings |
Campbell, “Manipulating Colour: Pounding an Almond” |
7 May |
3.4 |
Primitivism Cont’d |
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Readings |
Gert, “An Unmysterious Color Primitivism” |
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Unit 4 |
Conclusions |
14 May |
4.1 |
Color Ontology and the Philosophy of Mind |
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Readings |
Byrne, “Color and the Mind-Body Problem” |