Abstract
Colours and spectrum stand in an ambiguous and perhaps awkward relation to each other. There exist formal accounts in phenomenology with non-trivial structure that do not refer to the spectrum at all, whereas in contradistinction, conventional colorimetry is a formal account that focuses fully upon the spectral description of radiation. It describes precisely the basic psychophysical facts of discrimination of radiant beams – threshold psychophysics. These accounts are often conceived of as mutually exclusive. I explore formal relations and identify instances that do or don’t require spectral notions in some essential way. This yields novel insights in colour vision, in the most general sense, from a perspective that acknowledges both phenomenology and colorimetry.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond |
Editors | Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam, Galina V. Paramei |
Publisher | John Benjamins |
Chapter | 1 |
Pages | 5-22 |
Volume | 217 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- ecological physics
- spectrum
- phenomenology
- colours
- parts of white