title: Color Relationalism and Relativism.
abstract: This paper critically examines color relationalism and color relativism, two theories of color that are allegedly supported by variation in normal human color vision. We mostly discuss color relationalism, defended at length in Jonathan Cohen's The Red and the Real, and argue that the theory has insuperable problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago.
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hilbert
mesh_terms: D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055253:Color Vision / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Color; Color perception; Color relationalism; Color relativism; Color vision