%A Don Dedrick %J Philosophy of Science Association 96 Supplementary Issue, Part I %T Can colour be reduced to anything? %X C. L. Hardin has argued that the colour opponency of the vision system leads to chromatic subjectivism: chromatic sensory states reduce to neurophysiological states. Much of the force of Hardin's argument derives from a critique of chromatic objectivism. On this view chromatic sensory states are held to reduce to an external property. While I agree with Hardin's critique of objectivism it is far from clear that the problems which beset objectivism do not apply to the subjectivist position as well. I develop a critique of subjectivism that parallels Hardin's anti-objectivist argument. %K colour, reduction, Hardin, Matthen, chromatic subjectivism, chromatic objectivism. %P 134-142 %V 63 %D 1996 %L cogprints374