Kyle Jameson (Midwestern State University): Publications - PhilPeople

Midwestern State University
Department of Philosophy

Undergraduate

Wichita Falls, Texas, United States of America

Areas of Interest

Normative Ethics

Asian Philosophy

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Where in the World Color Survey is the support for color categorization based on the Hering primaries
In Jonathan Cohen & Mohan Matthen (eds.), Color Ontology and Color Science, Bradford. 2010.

This chapter focuses on a factor widely considered by the standard view to be the basis for color-naming phenomena and explores some plausible, comparatively uninvestigated factors that might underlie color naming. These are illustrated, in part, through a reexamination of World Color Survey data as it has been presented by Kuehni. The aim of this chapter is to examine the appropriateness of the Hering opponent-color construct as a theoretical foundation for explaining patterns of color naming i…Read more
This chapter focuses on a factor widely considered by the standard view to be the basis for color-naming phenomena and explores some plausible, comparatively uninvestigated factors that might underlie color naming. These are illustrated, in part, through a reexamination of World Color Survey data as it has been presented by Kuehni. The aim of this chapter is to examine the appropriateness of the Hering opponent-color construct as a theoretical foundation for explaining patterns of color naming in datasets like the WCS, which include many languages that do not use Hering color terms. The main conclusion reached is that a proper explanation for cross-cultural color naming and categorization should not depend on the Hering opponent-color construct.

Color