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Reliable Color Misrepresentation and Color Vision
Tracking theories of mental representation posit a privileged relation between color representations and the color properties of objects. Tracking...
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Aristotle and Huygens on Color and Light
Both before and after the publication of Isaac Newton’s particulate theory of light, numerous wave theories of light were advanced by...
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On the Philosophical Standpoint of a Recent Mathematical Color Perception Model
The problem of explaining color perception has fascinated painters, philosophers and scientists throughout the history. In many cases, the ideas and...
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Seeing with color: Psychophysics and the function of color vision
What is the function of color vision? In this paper, I focus on perceptual phenomena studied in psychophysics and argue that the best explanation for...
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Light in Assessing Color Quality: An Arabic-Spanish Cross-Linguistic Study
The debate about the meaning of color terms in the philosophy of language has been dominated by two main issues. Firstly, there is the discussion...
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HOTT and heavy: higher-order thought theory and the theory-heavy approach to animal consciousness
According to what Birch (
2022 ) calls the theory-heavy approach to investigating nonhuman-animal consciousness, we select one of the well-developed... -
Identity Theory and Falsifiability
I identify a class of arguments against multiple realization (MR): BookofSand arguments. The arguments are in their general form successful under...
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The Theory of Racelessness in Literary Studies: The Literal Absence of “Race” Versus the Figurative Presence of Color
In this chapter, I present and engage a literary theory inspired by Barbara Chase-Riboud’s The Albino and “The Albino” and the genealogies of...
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Counterpart Theory and Actuality
Lewis ( The Journal of Philosophy , 65 (5), 113–126,
1968 ) attempts to provide an account of modal talk in terms of the resources of counterpart theory ,... -
Berkeley’s Theory of Perception: Searle Versus Pappas
In Seeing Things as They Are (Searle 2015), Searle developed a direct realist’s theory of perception. According to direct realism, physical objects...
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Complexity of the Universal Theory of Residuated Ordered Groupoids
We study the computational complexity of the universal theory of residuated ordered groupoids, which are algebraic structures corresponding to...
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A Legion of Lesions: The Neuroscientific Rout of Higher-Order Thought Theory
Higher-order thought (HOT) theory says that a mental state is conscious when and only when represented by a conceptual, belief-like mental state....
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Special theory of relativity in chemistry
Application of Einstein special theory of relativity in chemistry seems to be superfluous; energies are too low. The average velocity of electron in...
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The mind-body problem and the color-body problem
According to a familiar modern view, color and other so-called secondary qualities reside only in consciousness, not in the external physical world....
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Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion
How many factors, i.e. departures from normality, are necessary to explain a delusion? Maher’s classic one-factor theory argues that the only factor...
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Internal constraints for phenomenal externalists: a structure matching theory
We motivate five constraints on theorizing about sensory experience. We then propose a novel form of naturalistic intentionalism that succeeds where...
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Instructions and constructions in set theory proofs
Traditional models of mathematical proof describe proofs as sequences of assertion where each assertion is a claim about mathematical objects....
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A Model Theory of Topology
An algebraization of the notion of topology has been proposed more than 70 years ago in a classical paper by McKinsey and Tarski, leading to an area...
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Reichenbach’s ‘Causal’ Theory of Time: A Re-assessment
The paper proposes a re-assessment of Reichenbach’s ‘causal’ theory of time. Reichenbach’s version of the theory, first proposed in 1921, is...
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Logicality and the picture theory of language
I argue that there is tension in Wittgenstein’s position on trivialities (i.e. tautologies and contradictions) in the Tractatus, as it contains the...
