In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to science, or else nothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is that Watkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics of colors. Consequently, Watkins provides an account of what colors are, how they are related to the physical properties on which they supervene, and how colors can be causally efficacious without the threat of causal overdetermination. Along the way, he provides novel accounts of normal conditions and non-human color properties. The book will be of interest to any metaphysician and philosopher of mind interested in colors and color perception.

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Auburn University, USA

Michael Watkins

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Book Title: Rediscovering Colors
Book Subtitle: A Study in Pollyanna Realism
Authors: Michael Watkins
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0562-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0737-8Published: 30 June 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3923-9Published: 22 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0562-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 210
Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Ontology, Philosophy, general

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