Color – The Brains Blog

Consider the visual experience of a normally functioning subject who consciously sees a red ball in front of her in daylight. This experience has representational properties, it is of or about so...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/02/01/perception-representational-properties-and-phenomenological-properties.aspx

Dates: May 26-27, 2017 Location: University of California, Berkeley Details: We invite submissions of papers to be considered for presentation at this international conference. Potential topics ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/19/cfp-grounding-sensible-qualities.aspx

How should we explain ‘what it is like’ to perceive colour? One of the reasons why naïve realist theories of colour are interesting is that they promise to contribute towards a solution to t...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/13/colour-and-the-problem-of-consciousness.aspx

One of the reasons why philosophical discussions of colour are interesting and important is that they bear on a number of wider philosophical questions. In today’s post I want to introduce some...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/12/quietism-naive-realism-and-the-nature-of-philosophy.aspx

The second main claim made by the naïve realist is that colours are distinct from the physical properties of objects. In saying that colours are distinct from the physical properties of objects,...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/11/colours-as-observational-properties.aspx

According to the naïve realist, colours are mind-independent properties of objects that are distinct from their physical properties. In today’s post I outline the argument for the first part o...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/10/colour-constancy-and-the-mind-independence-of-colour.aspx

Thanks to John Schwenkler for the invitation to write about my book, A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour (Oxford University Press, 2016). Colours are a prominent feature of the perceived world. The...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/09/what-are-colours.aspx

The Style of a Person Any book – the book of you included – would be more than just a succession of contents. A book is individuated not just by what it says but by the way it says it. It is ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2016/11/16/memory-and-the-self-the-style-of-a-person.aspx

The second session of the 2015 Minds Online conference has begun! It is on the theme of Perception and Consciousness, and includes the following papers: Nico Orlandi (UC Santa Cruz): Bayesian P...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/09/07/mindsonline2015-session-2-perception-and-consciousness.aspx

It is a terrifying thing to finish a book and then think of all the points that should’ve been made, all the topics that should have had an airing. I comfort myself with the thought that Outsid...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/05/29/4-beyond-colour.aspx