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Why asymmetries in color space cannot save functionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Jonathan Cohen
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 joncohen@ruccs.rutgers.edu ruccs.rutgers.edu/~joncohen/cohen.html

Abstract

Palmer's strategy of saving functionalism by constraining spectrum inversions cannot succeed because (1) there remain many nontrivial transformations not ruled out by Palmer's constraints, and (2) the constraints involved are due to the contingent makeup of our visual systems, and are therefore not available for use by functionalists.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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