BLACK AND WHITE AND THE INVERTED SPECTRUM

Author: Broackes, Justin1

Source: The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 227, April 2007 , pp. 161-175(15)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

To the familiar idea of an undetectable spectrum inversion some have added the idea of inverted earth. This new combination of ideas is even harder to make coherent, particularly as it applies to a supposed inversion of black and white counteracted by an environmental switch of these. Black and white exhibit asymmetries in their connections with illumination, shadow and visibility, which rule out their being reversed. And since the most saturated yellow is light and the most saturated blue dark, yellow and blue could not be reversed unless light and dark could be. The difficulties suggest some more general morals for how to think of the role of “qualia” in colour perception.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.477.x

Affiliations: 1: Brown University, Rhode Island

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