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Product Description: An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the seventeenth century...read more

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9780262029087 | Mit Pr, May 8, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.

By Stefan Riegelnik (editor)

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9783110350623 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, September 15, 2014, cover price $119.00

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Product Description: The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color--a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects...read more

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9780199556168 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 31, 2009, cover price $85.00

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9780199692231 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 11, 2011, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world.

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Product Description: Why is the sky blue? Parents don't know what to say when their children ask. Why the Sky Is Blue answers this ancient and surprisingly complex question in a more entertaining and accessible way than ever before. Götz Hoeppe takes the reader on a historical and scientific journey to show the various ways people in different times and places have explained why the sky looks blue...read more
By Gotz Hoeppe and John Stewart (trans)

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9780691124537 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 19, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Why is the sky blue?

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9780262201292 | Bradford Books, July 24, 2000, cover price $11.75

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9780262700887 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, February 7, 2002), cover price $20.00

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9780195133882 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 16, 1999, cover price $82.00

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9780195151886 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 14, 2002, cover price $51.00

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Product Description: "Color is an absolutely fascinating topic, one I happen to think is a beautiful and productive microcosm for cognitive science. These volumes will serve as useful resources for anyone interested in philosophy of color perception or color science...read more
By Alex Byrne (editor) and David R. Hilbert (editor)

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9780262024259 | Bradford Books, May 9, 1997, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: "Color is an absolutely fascinating topic, one I happen to think is a beautiful and productive microcosm for cognitive science.

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9780262522311 | Bradford Books, May 9, 1997, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: Color is an endlessly fascinating subject to philosophers, scientists, and laypersons, as well an an instructive microcosm of cognitive science. In these two anthologies, Alex Byrne and David Hilbert present a survey of the important recent philosophical and scientific writings on color...read more
By Alex Byrne (editor) and David R. Hilbert (editor)

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9780262024242 | Bradford Books, May 2, 1997, cover price $20.75 | About this edition: Color is an endlessly fascinating subject to philosophers, scientists, and laypersons, as well an an instructive microcosm of cognitive science.

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9780262522304 | Bradford Books, May 2, 1997, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: "The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to systematically codify it," writes Charles A. Riley in this series of interconnected essays on the uses and meanings of color. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874516715 | Univ Pr of New England, May 1, 1995, cover price $45.00

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9780874517422, titled "Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology" | Univ Pr of New England, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to systematically codify it," writes Charles A.

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Product Description: This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge. It begins with a characterization of our common sense understanding of the role of the senses in the acquisition of belief, and it argues that scientific accounts of the processes of perception undermine salient parts of this understanding...read more

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9780792325864 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1994, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge.

Discusses color and language, light, form, culture, and theory, and reexamines assumptions concerning color

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9780830655007 | Design Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Discusses color and language, light, form, culture, and theory, and reexamines assumptions concerning color

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9780026829700, titled "Writing Business Letters and Reports" | Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $33.95 | also contains Writing Business Letters and Reports

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9780872200401 | Expanded edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, May 1, 1988), cover price $52.00

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9780872200395 | Expanded edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, May 1, 1988), cover price $20.00

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9780026829700 | Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $33.95 | also contains The Visual Nature of Color
9780026829700 | Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $33.95 | also contains The Visual Nature of Color

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