A spectral reflectance doth not a color make

Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 191-202

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DOI: 10.5840/jphil2003100420     Document Type: Article

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3. Most of the empirical material on which the subsequent discussion draws may be found in the following sources: (1) P. K. Kaiser and R. M. Boynton, Human Color Vision, Second Edition (Washington, DC: Optical Society of America, 1996); see especially chapter 11.
4. D. Jameson and L. M. Hurvich, "Essay Concerning Color Constancy," reprinted in Byrne and Hilbert, eds., Readings on Color, Volume 2 (Cambridge: MIT, 1997), pp. 171-98.
5. C. L. Hardin, Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow, Expanded Edition (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993). There are some excellent illustrations of simultaneous contrast and the conditions for the appearance of brown on the web page of Dale Purves's lab: www.purveslab.net.
6. See "Biological Functions and Perceptual Content," this JOURNAL, LXXXV, 1 (January 1988): 5-27.
7. There are other factors too - see A.L. Gilchrist et al., "An Anchoring Theory of Lightness Perception," Psychological Review, CVI (1999): 795-834. Available on-line at http://psychology.rutgers.edu/Users/alan/ index.html.
8. Gilchrist, "Perceived Lightness Depends on Perceived Spatial Arrangement," Science, New Series, CXCV, 4274 (January 14, 1977): 185-87.
9. See the thorough treatment of the subject in Paul Whittle, "Contrast Colours," in R. Mausfeld and D. Heyer, eds., Colour Perception: From Light to Object (New York: Oxford, forthcoming).
10. Other studies have found a variation of 80 nm for unique green. For a full discussion of the topic, see M. A. Webster and S. M. Webster, "Variations in Normal Color Vision, III: Unique Hues in Indian and United States Observers," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, XIX, 10 (October 2000): 1951-62.
11. M. Neitz and J. Neitz, "Molecular Genetics and the Biological Basis of Color Vision," in W. G. K. Backhaus, R. Kliegel, and J. Werner, eds., Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines (New York: de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 100-19.