Philosophy of Color

Color is a subject of philosophical meditation. From ancient times color carried definite information and was widely used in folk arts. For example, according to legends four cardinal points have symbolical colors: the north - white, the south - brown, the east – yellow and the west - blue. Color is a subject of philosophical meditation. From ancient times color carried definite information and was widely used in folk arts. For example, according to legends four cardinal points have symbolical colors: the north - white, the south - brown, the east – yellow and the west - blue. Seasons also have own colors: spring - white-pink-green,...

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Color

ColorFirst published Mon Dec 1, 1997; substantive revision Mon Sep 18, 2006Colors are of philosophical interest for two kinds of reason. One is that colors comprise such a large and important portion of our social, personal and epistemological lives and so a philosophical account of our concepts of color is highly desirable. The second reason is that trying to fit colors into accounts of metaphysics, epistemology and science leads to philosophical problems that are intriguing and hard to resolve. Not surprisingly, these two kinds of reasons are related. The fact that colors are so significant in their own right, makes more pressing the philosophical...

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