The Philosophy of Color

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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/)...
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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