Book Reviews/Comptes rendus: Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015 ; 239 pp.; $42.00 (hardback) In Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy, Mazviita Chirimuuta engages with the fundamental questions about the metaphysics of colour—whether colours are real and whether they are mind-independent or mind-dependent properties. By engaging in contemporary perceptual science, neuroscience, and vision science, Chirimuuta provides a novel theory of the metaphysics of colour which moves beyond the traditional confines of the debate. [...]the anti-realist seeking to replace chromatic language (i.e., qualitative terms like blue or red) with neural language (i.e., physical terms like the firing of post-receptor neurons) eliminates the possibility of important scientific research topics, such as the relationship between colors and material properties.