?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Color+Realism%3A+Toward+a+Solution+to+the+%22Hard+Problem%22&rft.creator=Thomas%2C+Nigel+J.T.&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=This+article+was+written+as+a+commentary+on+an+article+by+Peter+W.+Ross+entitled+%22The+Location+Problem+for+Color+Subjectivism%22+%5BConsciousness+and+Cognition+10(1)%2C+42-58+(2001)%5D%2C+and+was+published+together+with+that+article+(and+with+other+commentaries%2C+and+Ross's+reply).+However%2C+it+is+by+means+essential+for+you+to+have+read+Ross's+piece+in+order+to+understand+the+approach+to+the+%22hard+problem%22+of+consciousness+proposed+here.+Ross's+article+defends+a+view+called+%22color+physicalism%22+or+color+realism+that+holds+(simplifying+somewhat)+that+colors+are+real+physical+properties+(in+typical+cases%2C+spectral+reflectances+of+object+surfaces).+This+is+in+opposition+to+what+is+probably+a+more+widely+held+%22subjectivist%22+view+of+color%2C+that+holds+that+color+qualities+exist+only+in+the+mind.+In+my+commentary+I+suggest+that+a+realist+view+of+qualitative+properties%2C+such+as+Ross's%2C+together+with+a+direct%2C+active+view+of+perception%2C+and+a+concept+of+%22extended+mind%22+(Clark+%26+Chalmers%2C+1998)+may+provide+the+materials+for+a+real+solution+to+the+notorious+%22hard+problem%22+of+consciousness.+I+sketch+this+solution+in+outline.&rft.publisher=Academic+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3749%2F1%2Fcolreal.htm&rft.identifier=++Thomas%2C+Nigel+J.T.++(2001)+Color+Realism%3A+Toward+a+Solution+to+the+%22Hard+Problem%22.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3749%2F