How to be an objectivist about colour

Frank Jackson

pp. 819-831

in: Objectivity, space, and mind, Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences 18 (5), 2019.

Abstract

Colours are as objective as shapes. Representationalism about perceptual experiences – the view that perceptual experiences represent that things are thus and so, and that their doing so is at least part of what makes them the kinds of experiences they are – tells us this, and also how to defend the position against the most potent objection to it, the argument from the variability of colour vision.