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Introduction Introduction
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Technology-shaped refinements of common-sense taxonomies Technology-shaped refinements of common-sense taxonomies
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‘Colour’ and the structure of representational primitives ‘Colour’ and the structure of representational primitives
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Obstacles to an appropriate account of the role of ‘colour’ within perceptual architecture Obstacles to an appropriate account of the role of ‘colour’ within perceptual architecture
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Summary of main theses Summary of main theses
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First obstacle: Misconceptions about attributes of colour and ‘modes of appearance’ First obstacle: Misconceptions about attributes of colour and ‘modes of appearance’
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Hue, saturation, and brightness Hue, saturation, and brightness
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Modes of appearance Modes of appearance
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The cultural development of colour terms The cultural development of colour terms
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Second obstacle: Neglect of illumination perception, and the predominance of an adaptational perspective Second obstacle: Neglect of illumination perception, and the predominance of an adaptational perspective
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Third obstacle: conflating levels of analysis Third obstacle: conflating levels of analysis
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Triggering and parameter setting: The dual function of sensory codes with respect to representational primitives Triggering and parameter setting: The dual function of sensory codes with respect to representational primitives
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The relation between the sensory input and the representational primitives The relation between the sensory input and the representational primitives
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Non-reducible primitives of the perceptual system Non-reducible primitives of the perceptual system
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Competing conjoint representations Competing conjoint representations
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‘Colour’ as two different kinds of free parameters in the structure of representational primitives ‘Colour’ as two different kinds of free parameters in the structure of representational primitives
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Phenomenal observations on surfaces under chromatic illumination Phenomenal observations on surfaces under chromatic illumination
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Activating illumination-related primitives by simple centre-surround configurations Activating illumination-related primitives by simple centre-surround configurations
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Modes of appearance revisited Modes of appearance revisited
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Transitions and switches in the activation of different types of primitives Transitions and switches in the activation of different types of primitives
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Different properties of different kinds of ‘colour’ parameters Different properties of different kinds of ‘colour’ parameters
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Interdependence of different types of parameters Interdependence of different types of parameters
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Further qualitative observations on the pre-processing of the sensory colour codes into two components Further qualitative observations on the pre-processing of the sensory colour codes into two components
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Acknowledgement Acknowledgement
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References References
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Commentaries on Mausfeld : Phenomenology and mechanism Commentaries on Mausfeld : Phenomenology and mechanism
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References References
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Commentaries on Mausfeld : An internalist account of colour Commentaries on Mausfeld : An internalist account of colour
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13 ‘Colour’ As Part of the Format of Different Perceptual Primitives: The Dual Coding of Colour
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Published:November 2003
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Abstract
This chapter approaches colour from the perspective of cognitive science, which has marshalled convincing evidence that our mental apparatus is equipped with a rich internal structure pertaining to, for example, structural knowledge about properties of the physical world, distinguishing between physical and biological objects, or imputing mental states to oneself and to others. With respect to perception theory, this evidence indicates that the structure of internal coding is built up in terms of a rich set of representational primitives. This chapter also argues that colour plays different roles in different representational primitives. Rather than asking what colour really is, or making presuppositions about its ‘proper causal antecedents’ or about the ‘proper intentional objects’ of colour, the focus is on how it figures within the structure of representational primitives of perception.
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