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Please join us this Saturday, March 18th, for the annual KSU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference in Remembrance of May 4th. We will be meeting in person, venue and program at link below. The event is free and open to all!

2023 Conference Program | Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 30th Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4thSaturday, March 18th, 2023 Keynote Speaker:Dr. John Nolt Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleProf. Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Program CoordinatorLogistics (dir...

Dr. Jacob Berger of Lycoming College will be giving a talk at 1pm on Friday, February 24th, to be held in Bowman Hall Room 315.

The title of his talk is “Quality-Space Functionalism about Color.” The abstract appears below, and the paper is attached. Light refreshments will be served after the talk.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required (so we can provide refreshments). Please register using this Google form: https://forms.gle/pEUaNoejMcXDVNyg7

I motivate and defend a previously underdeveloped functionalist account of the metaphysics of color, a view that I call ‘quality-space functionalism’ about color. Although other theorists have proposed varieties of color functionalism, this view differs from such accounts insofar as it identifies and individuates colors by their relative locations within a particular kind of ‘quality space’ that reflects creatures’ capacities to discriminate visually among stimuli. My arguments for this view of color are abductive: I propose that quality-space functionalism best captures our commonsense conception of color, fits with many experimental findings, coheres with the phenomenology of color experience, and avoids many issues for standard theories of color, such as color physicalism and color relationalism.

Thanks to Dr. David Pereplyotchik for arranging Dr. Berger's visit.

Join us this Saturday, March 19th, at 10AM EST for this year’s Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. The event will be held remotely on Teams. Details on how to join at the link below.

http://philosophy.kent.edu/philconf/2022-conference-program-0

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