“If there are states of sensing bluely, they obviously do not present themselves as such—otherwise the very existence of a controversy about their existence would be inexplicable.” Sellars (1981, 67) It’s time to get down to the nitty gritty. In the first of these posts I suggested that we look …
“If he [Descartes] had examined that other, deeper opening upon things given us by the secondary qualities, especially color, then….[h]e would have been obliged to find out how the indecisive murmur of colors can present us with things, forests, storms—in short the world. …. But for him it goes without …
…. the whole philosophy of perception from Democritus’s time downwards has been just one long wrangle over the paradox that what is evidently one reality should be in two places at once, both in outer space and in a person’s mind. (James 1904:481) I chose this quotation from William James’s …
By Justin Broackes I expect everyone’s heartily tired now of the Dress … But I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and with an artist-designer friend in London, Hilary Brown, I started thinking of ways to illustrate what was going on. So here are a few images — note that all …
The following is a guest post written by Justin Broackes, who is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, and has published extensively in the philosophy and science of color, among many other subjects. We’re very pleased to publish it here as a follow-up to yesterday’s roundtable discussion of what “the dress” has …
Unless you have the good fortune to be shielded from the latest obsessions of social media, you heard last week about “the dress”, an image of a dress that some people see as white and gold while others see it as blue and black, with a few able to switch between the two …
I’m very glad to be introducing Matthew Fulkerson, who will contribute several featured posts at the Brains blog beginning this week. Matt is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 2012. Prior to that he was a …
