Colour Vision

✍ Scribed by Evan T Thompson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thompson provides an accessible review of the current scientific and philosophical discussions of colour vision and is vital readingfor all cognitive scientists and philsophers whose interests touch upon this central area.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER
HALF-TITLE
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
FIGURES
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 THE RECEIVED VIEW
THE NEWTONIAN HERITAGE
Newton?s experimentum crucis
The Newtonian conception of colour
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES
THE PROBLEM-SPACE OF THE RECEIVED VIEW
2 COLOUR VISION: RECENT THEORIES AND RESULTS
APPROACHES TO COLOUR VISION
Psychophysics and physiology
Computational vision
THE PHENOMENAL STRUCTURE OF COLOUR
PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSICS
Visual pigments, photoreceptors, and additive colour mixture
Postreceptoral mechanisms and opponent processes
Psychophysical issues about the postreceptoral channels
Physiological issues about the postreceptoral channels
Cortical connections
COMPUTATIONAL COLOUR VISION
Colour constancy and the ?natural image?
Global computations and lightness
Criticisms of the retinex theory
The linear models framework (LMF)
Spatial segmentation
Summary
LEVELS OF EXPLANATION AND COLOUR SPACE
Levels of explanation
Colour space: a resume
The case of colour constancy
3 NATURALISTIC ONTOLOGIES
EXPLANATION AND DESCRIPTIVE VOCABULARIES
COMPUTATIONAL OBJECTIVISM
Colour and wavelength
Colour and surface reflectance: anthropocentric realism
The argument from external irreducibility
NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVISM
BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND SUBJECTIVISM
4 THE COMPARATIVE ARGUMENT
INTRODUCING COMPARATIVE COLOUR VISION
COMPARATIVE COLOUR SPACES
A bird?s-eye view
Colour hyperspaces and novel colours
THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF COLOUR VISION
Molecular biology of the visual pigments and psychophysics
Visual ecology
THE COMPARATIVE ARGUMENT
Computational objectivism revisited9
The argument from perceiver-relativity
Neurophysiological subjectivism revisited
5 THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW
THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL
PERCEPTION AND THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL
Representationism revisited
Gibson?s ?ecological approach?
The ecological approach and computational vision
Integrating computational vision, neuroscience, and the ecological level: an action-based paradigm
WHERE IS COLOUR?
6 VISUAL EXPERIENCE AND THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW
SENSATIONALISM
Nagel and the subjective character of perceptual experience
Novel colours and Jackson?s knowledge argument5
COGNITIVISM: DENNETT?S DISQUALIFICATION OF QUALIA
VISUAL EXPERIENCE, SCIENCE, AND THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX