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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Sources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Summary of This Volume | |
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| Visual Experience: Some Distinctions | |
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| Red-Representing Experiences and Red-Feeling Experiences | |
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| Phenomenal Properties | |
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| Sensational Properties | |
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| Three Kinds of Experiential Property | |
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| Eliminativism | |
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| Dispositionalism | |
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| Physicalism | |
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| Primitivism | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| On Some Criticisms of a Physicalist Theory of Colors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Color and the Anthropocentric Problem | |
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| The Trilemma | |
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| Smart's Account of Color | |
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| A Natural-Kind Account of Color | |
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| Problems with the A-All Account of Part II | |
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| Another Nonanthropocentric Account of Color | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Smart and the Secondary Qualities | |
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| The Development of Smart's View | |
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| Defence of an Objectivist Physicalism About the Secondary Qualities | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reply to Armstrong | |
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| Notes | |
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| Colour Concepts and Colour Experience | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes | |
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| An Objectivist's Guide To Subjectivism About Colour | |
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| Colour Terms | |
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| The Dispositional Truism | |
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| Subjectivism About Colour | |
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| An Empirical Complication | |
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| Colours, Shapes, and Causal Interaction Patterns | |
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| Colours in the Dark and in Other Worlds | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Colour as a Secondary Quality | |
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| The Galilean Intuition | |
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| Charitable Accounts of Colour Experience | |
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| The Physicalist Account | |
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| Dispositionalist Accounts | |
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| The Projectivist Account | |
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| Pros and Cons | |
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| Interpreting Colour Discourse | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Physicalist Theories of Color | |
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| The Problem of Color Realism | |
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| Metaphysics and Semantics | |
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| What is Looking Colored? | |
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| Color Experience vs. Color Discourse | |
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| Versions of Physicalism | |
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| The Naive Objection | |
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| Colors vs. Ways of Being Colored | |
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| The Propositional Content of Visual Experience | |
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| Further Distinctions | |
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| The First Intuition: Similarity Classes | |
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| A Humean Proposal | |
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| An Information-Theoretic Proposal | |
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| Introducing Qualia | |
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| The Second Intuition: Causes of Visual Effects | |
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| Outline of the Argument | |
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| Epistemological Constraints | |
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| Meeting the Epistemological Constraints | |
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| Some Defenses and Replies | |
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| Smart's Analogy | |
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| Armstrong's Analogy | |
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| Explaining the Epistemological Intuitions Away | |
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| Fregean, Realization-Theoretic Theories | |
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| A New Proposal | |
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| The Initial Fregean, Realization-Theoretic Proposal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes | |
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| How to Speak of the Colors | |
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| Color Concepts as Cluster Concepts | |
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| Are Color Concepts Primary or Secondary? | |
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| The (Possibly Vacuous) Case of the Bare Disposition | |
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| The Case of the Constituted Disposition | |
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| Explanation | |
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| Unity and Availability | |
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| Which Response-Dispositional Concepts are the Color Concepts? | |
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| Rigidification | |
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| Standard Mediation | |
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| Relativized Colors | |
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| Kripke's Reference-Fixing Account | |
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| Revelation Revisited | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Postscript: Visual Experience | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Simple View of Colour | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Autonomy of Colour | |
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| Are Colours Explanatorily Idle? | |
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| Colour Laws and Colour Science | |
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| Colour Interpretation | |
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| Away from the Dispositional Thesis | |
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| Colour Interpretation | |
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| The Colour of a Surface as a Way in Which it Changes the Light | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Phenomenal Character | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Explaining Objective Color in Terms of Subjective Reactions | |
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| Why Objective Color Should Be Explained in Terms of Subjective Reactions | |
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| Color Sensations | |
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| Objective Color Explained in Terms of Color Sensations | |
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| Color Sensations as Basic | |
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| Variations in Color Sensations | |
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| Functional Definitions of Color Sensations | |
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| Complication: There Are No Color Sensations | |
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| Representational Character of Perceptual Experience | |
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| The Concept of Color | |
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| The Inverted Spectrum | |
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| Worries About Inverted Spectra | |
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| What Is It Like to See Red? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Colors and Reflectances | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Green-Representing and Green-Feeling Experiences | |
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| A Physicalist Theory of Color | |
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| Colors Are Reflectances | |
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| Content and Phenomenology | |
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| Replies to Objections | |
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| First Objection: Actual Variations in Phenomenology | |
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| Second Objection: Red Is Really More Similar to Orange than It Is to Green | |
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| Third Objection: Physicalism Cannot Account for Binary Structure | |
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| Conclusion: The Case for Physicalism | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Reinverting the Spectrum | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |