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Color Psychology and Color Therapy: A Factual Study of the Influence of Color on Human Life » Read Now
by Faber Birren. 326 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Colors and Emotions: Preferences and Combinations, in Journal of General Psychology » Read Now
by Mark Meerum Terwogt, Jan B. Hoeksma. 13 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour » Read Now
by Barry Stroud. 256 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human...
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We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human perceptions and the conditions under which we see things? Distinguished scholar Barry Stroud investigates these and related questions in The Quest for Reality. In this long-awaited book, he examines what a person would have to do and believe in order to reach the conclusion that everyone's perceptions and beliefs about the color of things are "illusions" and do not accurately represent the way things are in the world as it is independently of us. Arguing that no such conclusion could be consistently reached, Stroud finds that the conditions of a successful unmasking of color cannot all be fulfilled. The discussion extends beyond color to present a serious challenge to many other philosophical attempts to discover the way things really are. A model of subtle, elegant, and rigorous philosophical writing, this study will attract a wide audience from all areas of philosophy.
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Color and Consciousness: An Essay in Metaphysics » Read Now
by Charles Landesman. 156 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Creative Color (Chap. 14 "New Horizons-Perceptionism") » Read Now
by Faber Birren. 132 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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The Use of Color in Art Therapy, in Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development » Read Now
by Rebecca L. Withrow. 7 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Children's Emotional Associations with Colors, in Journal of Genetic Psychology » Read Now
by Chris J. Boyatzis, Reenu Varghese. 9 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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A Note on Adults' Color-Emotion Associations, in Journal of Genetic Psychology » Read Now
by Michael Hemphill. 6 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Relationship between Color and Emotion: A Study of College Students, in College Student Journal » Read Now
by Naz Kaya, Helen H. Epps. 10 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Effects of Colored Separate and Interactive Pictures on Cued Recall, in Journal of Psychology » Read Now
by Stuart J. McKelvie, Elaine K. Sano, Dale Stout. 11 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Consciousness and Cognition (Chap. 1 "Spectrum Inversion" and Chap. 5 "Black-and-White Mary") » Read Now
by Michael Thau. 280 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take. In this book, Michael Thau shows that, despite...
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Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take. In this book, Michael Thau shows that, despite its naturalness, this conception begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. Exorcising these errors requires that we completely reconceive the nature of both consciousness and cognition as well as the fundamental problems each poses. Thau proceeds by discussing three famous and important philosophical puzzles - Spectrum Inversion, Frege's Puzzle, and Black-and-White Mary - each of which concerns some aspect of either consciousness or cognition. It has gone unnoticed that at a certain important level of generality, each of these puzzles presents the very same problem and, in bringing out this common problem, the errors in our natural conception of consciousness and cognition are also brought out. Thau's book will appeal to the casual reader interested in the proper solution of these puzzles and the nature of consciousness and cognition. The discussion of Frege's puzzle also contains important insights about the nature of linguistic communication and, hence, anyone interested in the fundamental questions in philosophy of language will also want to read the book.
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