@article{akins_more_2014,
	title = {More than {Mere} {Colouring}: {The} {Role} of {Spectral} {Information} in {Human} {Vision}},
	volume = {65},
	issn = {0007-0882, 1464-3537},
	shorttitle = {More than {Mere} {Colouring}},
	url = {https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axt060},
	doi = {10/gg3vkq},
	abstract = {A common view in both philosophy and the vision sciences is that, in human vision, wavelength information is primarily ‘for’ colouring: for seeing surfaces and various media as having colours. In this article we examine this assumption of ‘colour-for-colouring’. To motivate the need for an alternative theory, we begin with three major puzzles from neurophysiology, puzzles that are not explained by the standard theory. We then ask about the role of wavelength information in vision writ large. How might wavelength information be used by any monochromat or dichromat and, finally, by a trichromatic primate with object vision? We suggest that there is no single ‘advantage’ to trichromaticity but a multiplicity, only one of which is the ability to see surfaces and so on as having categorical colours. Instead, the human trichromatic retina exemplifies a scheme for a general encoding of wavelength information given the constraints imposed by high spatial resolution object vision. Chromatic vision, like its partner, luminance vision, is primarily for seeing. Viewed this way, the ‘puzzles’ presented at the outset make perfect sense.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2023-01-03},
	journal = {The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science},
	author = {Akins, Kathleen A. and Hahn, Martin},
	month = mar,
	year = {2014},
	pages = {125--171},
}

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