Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology
This essay is an exercise in philosophy. It asks, “what are the colors?”, and ultimately provides a primitivist answer. The essay has four parts. The first is entitled “Stage setting” and has two subparts. In 1.1, I provide an explanation of how we should understand the question of which this essay...
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| description | This essay is an exercise in philosophy. It asks, “what are the colors?”, and ultimately provides a primitivist answer. The essay has four parts. The first is entitled “Stage setting” and has two subparts. In 1.1, I provide an explanation of how we should understand the question of which this essay is concerned. The goal of 1.2 is to provide an adequate taxonomy of views. Part 2 is entitled “Dispositional views” and has three subparts. In 2.1, I argue against appearance dispositional views. In 2.2, I argue against reflectance dispositionalism. Finally in 2.3, I provide a general argument against the colors being dispositions. Part 3 is entitled “Categorical views” and has three subparts. In 3.1, I argue against micro-structuralism. In 3.2, I argue against Cohen’s relationalism. Finally in 3.3, I argue for and defend non-relational primitivism. In the last major section of this essay I look at whether we should give up on the colors actually being instantiated. This section has only one subpart, and in it I reject the argument that the best explanation of mass disagreement about the colors is that irrealism is true. |
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| spelling | nottingham-142312025-02-28T11:29:31Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14231/ Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology Roberts, Pendaran This essay is an exercise in philosophy. It asks, “what are the colors?”, and ultimately provides a primitivist answer. The essay has four parts. The first is entitled “Stage setting” and has two subparts. In 1.1, I provide an explanation of how we should understand the question of which this essay is concerned. The goal of 1.2 is to provide an adequate taxonomy of views. Part 2 is entitled “Dispositional views” and has three subparts. In 2.1, I argue against appearance dispositional views. In 2.2, I argue against reflectance dispositionalism. Finally in 2.3, I provide a general argument against the colors being dispositions. Part 3 is entitled “Categorical views” and has three subparts. In 3.1, I argue against micro-structuralism. In 3.2, I argue against Cohen’s relationalism. Finally in 3.3, I argue for and defend non-relational primitivism. In the last major section of this essay I look at whether we should give up on the colors actually being instantiated. This section has only one subpart, and in it I reject the argument that the best explanation of mass disagreement about the colors is that irrealism is true. 2014 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14231/1/Open_your_eyes-An_essay_on_color_ontology.pdf Roberts, Pendaran (2014) Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Color Ontology Philosophy |
| spellingShingle | Color Ontology Philosophy Roberts, Pendaran Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| title | Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| title_full | Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| title_fullStr | Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| title_short | Open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| title_sort | open your eyes: an essay on color ontology |
| topic | Color Ontology Philosophy |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14231/ |