The Attractions of “Object Colors”

Article Article scientifique Article The Attractions of “Object Colors” eng 2025-03-21 2025-07 author Sharp William 0000-0002-0022-9230 431050 Département de philosophie (PHIL1) 732-749 10.1017/psa.2025.5 0031-8248 Three popular objections to reductionism about color, experience as of impossible colors, the unary/binary distinction, and structural mismatch, are issues just, I argue, for the (probably default) version of reductionism according to which colors reduce to sets of surface spectral reflectances. They are not problems for the version on which colors are dispositions to reflect coarse-grained intensities of light are—what in colorimetry are called “object colors.” This article sets out to demonstrate the virtues of the latter reductionism. Dewey 100/501 89 Département de philosophie 3G false Philosophy of science 92 3 600c345f-3c6f-49c9-a0e4-88574e95f74c Article (Published version) Restricted Article_scientifique_from_unpaywall.pdf 434882 application/pdf 757af0f2537f328cc0340502e1a90e3b2a69d84a5e1d07ef0ccdc4defdfdf64c restrictedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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