1st Edition
On the Genealogy of Color A Case Study in Historicized Conceptual Analysis
1. The Problem of Color Realism 2. The Aristotelian Strand 3. The Cartesian Strand 4. Descartes’s Quandary 5. Moving Beyond the Problem of Color Realism
Biography
Zed Adams is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, USA.
"Adams has produced a stimulating and challenging book. It raises a host of interesting and thought-provoking questions." —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Adams's book offers a richly textured history of the interplay between theoretical components in our evolving concepts of color." —Jonathan Cohen, University of California San Diego, USA
"This book is impressive not just because it shows how our ‘ordinary’ concept of color involves incompatible commitments inherited from radically different philosophical theories of color, but because it also demonstrates how awareness of the history of philosophy can completely change how we think about contemporary debates." —Nat Hansen, University of Reading, UK
