Readings on Color

Alex Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at MIT and the coeditor of Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson (2001) and Readings on Color, volumes 1 and 2 (1997), all published by the MIT Press.

Part 1 Physics: the causes of colour, Kurt Nassau. Part 2 Colour measurement: the physical basis of colour specification, D.L. MacAdam. Part 3 Physiology and psychophysics: chromatic and achromatic response functions, Leo M. Hurvich; neural coding of colour, Russell L. De Valois and Karen K. De Valois. Part 4 Colour constancy: recent advances in retinex theory, Edwin H. Land; colour constancy and the natural image, Brian A. Wandell; essay concerning colour constancy, Dorothea Jameson and Leo M. Hurvich. Part 5 Colour defects and genetics: colour blindness, Yun Hsia and C.H. Graham; perception of colour in unilateral tritanopia, M. Alpern et al; the genes for colour vision, Jeremy Nathans. Part 6 Central defects of colour vision and naming: colour-naming defects in association with alexia, Norman Geschwind and Michael Fusillo; colour perception profiles in central achromatopsia, Matthew Rizzo et al; on the role of parvocellular (P) and magnocellular (M) pathways in cerebral achromatopsia, Charles A. Heywood et al. Part 7 Comparative colour vision and evolution: the perceptual organization of colours - an adaptation to regularities of the terrestrial world?, Roger N. Shepard; visual pigments and the acquisition of visual information, J.N. Lythgoe and J.C. Partridge; "Tho' She Kneel'd in That Place Where They Grew..." - the uses and origins of primate colour vision, J.D. Mollon. Part 8 Colour concepts and names: the linguistic significance of the meanings of basic colour terms, Paul Kay and Chad K. McDaniel.