Type:
Budapest colloquium talks
Audience:
Open to the Public
Speaker:
Building:
Zrinyi u. 14
Room:
412
Academic Area:
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 5:30pm
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Date:
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Abstract
Where does usefulness of color perception come from? I want to argue that what enables us to talk about the usefulness of ‘detecting’ red is the unity bestowed by the response (the ‘visaging’ of phenomenal redness). It is the relational, response-dependent usefulness, response-usefulness for short.
I shall also discuss the opposite view of Mohan Matthen who derives reality of color from the usefulness of color recognition, rather than usefulness from its reality.