[Revised entry by Barry Maund on August 9, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, color-science-complexities.html, color-special-topics.html]
Colors are of philosophical interest for a number of reasons. One of the most important reasons is that color raises serious metaphysical issues, concerning the nature both of physical reality and of the mind. Among these issues are questions concerning whether color is part of a mind-independent reality, and what account we can give of experiences of color. These issues have been, and continue to be, inextricably linked with important epistemological and semantic issues….

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