Overview: Includes supplementary material: In .Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism.,Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple,non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaksfrom what has become the received view that either colors arereducible to certain properties of interest to science, or elsenothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is thatWatkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics ofcolors. Consequently, Watkins provides an account of what colors are,how they are related to the physical properties
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