Volume 66, Numbers 1-2, 203-231, DOI: 10.1007/s10670-006-9036-8

Is Color-dispositionalism Nasty and Unecological?

Nenad Miscevic

From the issue entitled "Perspectives on Colour Perception"

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Abstract

This article is a brief presentation and defense of response-dispositionalist intentionalism against a family of objections. The view claims that for a surface to have an objective stable color is to have a disposition to cause in normal observers a response, namely, intentional phenomenal-color experience. The objections, raised recently by M. Johnston, B. Stroud, and by Byrne and Hilbert, claim that any dispositionalist view is unfair to the naive perceiver-thinker, saddles her with massive error and represents her as maladaptated to her environment. The paper reconstructs the main line of thought in favor of response-intentionalism and argues that it is in fact rather charitable and fair to naïve cognizers, and also avoids a cluster of related objections.

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