The Philosophy of Color

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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/duncanclarke Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duncansclarke/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/duncanc_ Discord: https://discord.gg/6rCbemyhRy Is color real? If so, what is it? Why does this matter? This video explores the ancient debate between Newton and Goethe to answer these questions and shed some light (pun intended) on why we have certain associations with different colours. Sources: Brent Berlin, Paul Kay - Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. Kay, Berlin, Maffi, Merrifield, Cook. - The World Color Survey Josef Albers - Interaction of Color Kurt Nassau - The Physics and Chemistry of Color: The 15 Causes of Color Evan Thompson - Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Science James J. Gibson - The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Henrik Moetius, Marie Louise Lauridsen - Light. Darkness And Colours (1998 Documentary about Goethe's colour theory) Songs used (in order of appearance): Fortress Europe - Dan Bodan Wehrmut - Godmode Bonos - Coyote Hearing Prophet 7 - Noir Et Blanc Vie Glitchin' a Ride - The Whole Other MydNyte - Noir Et Blanc Vie I Am Running Down the Long Hallway of Viewmont Elementary - Chris Zabriskie Komorebi - Futuremono Lasting Hope by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/)... Source: [http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-](http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-)... Artist: [http://incompetech.com/](http://incompetech.com/) QuangerineCream - Noir Et Blanc Vie Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 2:35 - Color associations 4:06 - Overview of color science 5:24 - Goethe's theory of color 8:43 - Experiments and illusions 11:22 - Color Dispositionalism 12:31 - The Ecological View 16:27 - Non-human animal color perception 17:03 - The argument from perceiver relativity 17:40 - Evolution