This work subjects some of the statements in Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Colour" (What do we mean when we talk about colour? Why can't there be brown light or anything transparent white?) to a detailed examination that draws on philosophy, phenomenology, psychology and physics. The author rejects Wittgenstein's grammatical explanation of colours, as well as the physicalists' reduction of colours to light emissions of specific wavelengths. He argues that in the phenomenon of colour lie clues to the question of the relation between the physical and mental sides of human nature.
- ISBN10 0631179348
- ISBN13 9780631179344
- Publish Date 21 March 1991 (first published 24 September 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 172
- Language English