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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Preface: Disentangling Our Concept of Color
Acknowledgments
1 The Problem of Color Realism
1.1 Cartesian Anti-Realism
1.2 Oxford Realism
1.3 Survey of Considerations in Support of the Intrinsic View
1.4 Experimental Evidence
1.5 The Need for a Genealogy of Color
2 The Aristotelian Strand
2.1 Aristotle on Perception
2.2 Color as the Proper Object of Vision
2.3 The Doctrine of Species
2.4 The Aristotelian Distinction between True and Apparent Colors
2.5 The Persistence of the Aristotelian Strand
3 The Cartesian Strand
3.1 Descartes on Light and Vision
3.2 Descartes's Criticism of the Aristotelian Distinction between True and Apparent Colors
3.3 Descartes's Criticisms of the Doctrine of Species
3.4 Descartes on Color as the Proper Object of Vision
3.5 The Cartesian Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities
3.6 The Cartesian Strand's Presence
3.7 Interlude: Where We Find Ourselves Now
4 Descartes's Quandary
4.1 Descartes's Vacillation
4.2 A Genealogical Explanation for Descartes's Vacillation
4.3 The Emergence of Dispositionalism
4.4 Philosophical False Friends
5 Moving Bevond the Problem of Color Realism
5.1 The Target/Content Distinction
5.2 The Problem with Cartesian Anti-Realism
5.3 The Problem with Oxford Realism
5.4 The Way Out of Descartes's Quandary
5.5 Conclusion: Against Ahistorical Conceptual Analysis
Index
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