Abstract

It is intended to show how Cohen's functionalist relationalism transcends and blurs the characteristic sharp break of the canonical ontological proposals of color between the subjective and objective. Thus, from the familiarity of classical authors, the general characteristics of each mentalist and externalist perspective are explained, in consideration of their particular difficulties. Finally, after the presentation of the central argument displayed by Cohen to justify the relational character of the chromatic properties, together with its functional analysis, it is sought to expose the main phenomenological objections against relationalism about the evidence of our visual experience and how Cohen’s proposal overcomes them.