What Is This Thing You Call Color: Can a Totally Color-Blind Person Know about Color?

Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nordby, Knut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Color vision; Knut Norby; Mary; Senses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920397834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171655.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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