Colour Constancy, Illumination, and Matching

Philosophy of Science 83 (4):540-562 (2016)
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Abstract

Colour constancy is a foundational and yet puzzling phenomenon. Standard appearance invariantism is threatened by the psychophysical matching argument, which is taken to favour variantism. This argument, however, is inconclusive. The data at best support a pluralist view: colour constancy is sometimes variantist, sometimes invariantist. I add another potential explanation of these data, complex invariantism, which adopts an atypical six-dimensional model of colour appearance. Finally I prospect for a unifying conception of constancy among two neglected notions: discriminatory colour constancy and relational colour constancy. The former arguably marks a common core capacity that is present across widely differing viewing contexts.

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