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Question posted on September 2, 2010; 1 response
I'm going to be a senior in high school and I've found philosophy podcasts to be a great way to sample the thoughts of famous philosophers without having to drudge through esoteric forests of essays. Between listening to Philosophy Bites...
Color, Philosophers Show

Question posted on July 22, 2010; 1 response
How are we to define colors? I have two suggestions, but I don’t know where to go from here: (1) they could be defined based on the particular subjective experiences (particular qualia) themselves or they could be defined based on...
Color Show

Question posted on June 30, 2010; 1 response
If everybody in the world thought blue was the best color, would it be a fact that blue is the best color? --Josh, age 11 ...
Beauty, Color Show

Question posted on June 8, 2010; 2 responses
Wittgenstein once said that the world is the totality of facts. It seems to me that at least in the case of color this theory doesn't apply. What facts can be said about the "redness" of a red object. Perhaps...
Color, Philosophers Show

Question posted on March 19, 2010; 1 response
Are there logical relations between colors? For instance, is it logically true that red and blue make purple?...
Color Show

Question posted on March 11, 2010; 1 response
Since I am doing a study about colors and how they relate to the natural world in ways that we perceive them, there is an obstacle for this research. What is the opposite color of Brown, a neutral color representing...
Color Show

Question posted on February 4, 2010; 1 response
Are black and white colors, or not?...
Color Show

Question posted on March 24, 2009; 1 response
I have a question about colors. I always wonder if other people see the same color as I see. For example, we can agree that apple's color is red, but is it possible that we are refering to different colors...
Color, Mind Show

Question posted on December 9, 2008; 1 response
Can a person who was born blind know what "red" looks like? Is there any way you can explain it to him/her so that he/she can perceive it the way we do?...
Color, Perception Show

Question posted on October 28, 2008; 2 responses
Is there any objective, scientific way to prove that we all see colours the same? I know it's one thing for two people to point at an object and agree on its colour, even the particular shade, but there's...
Color, Mind Show

Question posted on February 14, 2008; 1 response
When trying to imagine a completely new colour, similar to those that already exist in brightness - a basic new colour - but one that has never been percieved before - it is antaginizingly impossible. Is this merely a demonstration...
Color Show

Question posted on June 9, 2007; 2 responses
I have always thought that with the primary colors and black and white, you can create any color that we see. This may sound dumb, but then how do you make neon colors? What else can you add...
Color Show

Question posted on November 30, 2006; 1 response
If eyes had never evolved, would LIGHT still exist (or: be manifest)? By this I do not mean: would there still be electromagnetic radiation of a certain range of wavelengths (there would, of course). Rather, I mean: in the absence...
Color Show

Question posted on February 24, 2006; 1 response
It is legitimate to say that tomatoes instantiate the property red. But is it also legitimate to say that tomatoes "cause" the instantiation of the property red? Thank you....
Color Show

Question posted on February 15, 2006; 2 responses
I was once asked at a University PPE interview, Does time have a colour? I found it both extremely interesting and baffling. My opinion was that as time was not a physical property it could not have a colour yet...
Color, Time Show

Question posted on January 21, 2006; 1 response
The word 'color' has three meanings, as far as I can tell: 1, certain properties of atoms and molecules that make them emit electromagnetic radiation in the so-called visible range; 2, mixtures of frequencies of this electromagnetic radiation that go...
Color Show

Question posted on December 27, 2005; 1 response
I am having trouble with secondary qualities, which are manufactured in the brain after receipt of digital signals from the sense organs. For example, if I see a green leaf, I know that chlorphyll molecules in the leaf transmit electromagnetic...
Color Show

Question posted on November 18, 2005; 1 response
If it turned out that colours had four dimensions instead of the perceived three, would that mean that colours we see now do not exist?...
Color Show

Question posted on November 17, 2005; 1 response
The color of something is the color of the spectrum that isn't taken in by an object. However when I look at the color "green", do I see the same tint someone sees when they see "blue"? The identification of...
Color, Knowledge Show

Question posted on October 22, 2005; 1 response
Can a new color be made that is not like, or mixed from, any other?...
Color Show




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