ABSTRACT
You see a cherry, and you experience it as red. A textbook explanation for why you have this sort of experience is going to cite such things as the cherry’s chemical surface properties and the distinctive mixture of the wavelengths of light it is disposed to reflect. What does not show up in this explanation is the redness of the cherry. Many allege that the availability of color-free explanations of color experience somehow calls into question our beliefs about the colors of objects around us. The authors explore how such explanations are supposed to undermine color beliefs and, in particular, whether evolutionary considerations have any special role to play.
