COLOR: ONTOLOGICAL STATUS AND EPISTEMIC ROLE -- COLOR: ONTOLOGICAL STATUS AND EPISTEMIC ROLE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 1. THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF COLOR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ORGANISM -- 1.1. NEWTON ON THE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT AND COLOR -- 1.2. INTERACTION OF THE COLOR-SENSING ELEMENTS OF THE EYE -- 1.3. THE COLOR PERCEPTION AND THE MUTUAL INTERACTION OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF THE ORGANISM -- 1.4. THE MECHANISMS OF MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF SENSE ORGANS -- Ephaptic Connections -- Irradiation Effect. The Rule of Leveling and Exaggeration -- Connections between Centers -- The Role of the Vegetative Nervous System -- Sensor Conditioned Reflexes -- The Changing of Physiological Readiness of the Organism to Perception -- Chapter 2 2. THE SOURCE OF THE MYTHS ABOUT EXPERIENCE: THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BEING AND THINKING IDENTITY -- 1.1. THE HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BEING AND THINKING IDENTITY -- Parmenides -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Descartes -- Necessity -- Sufficiency -- Leibnitz -- Wittgenstein -- Modern Analytic Tradition -- 1) Necessity -- 2) Sufficiency -- 2.2. CRITICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST EXPERIENCE -- 2) Historical Development of the Scientific Fact (L. Fleck) -- 3) Theoretical Ladenness of Observations (P. Duhem, N. R. Hanson, T. Kun, P. Feyerabend) -- 4) Impossibility to Draw a Line between Theory and Experience (G. Maxwell) -- 2.3. THE MYTHS ABOUT EXPERIENCE: PASSIVITY AND DISCRETENESS OF PERCEPTION -- The Thesis of Underdeterminacy as a Corollary of Perception Activity -- Historical Development of the Scientific Fact as a Corollary of the Perception Activity -- Theoretical Ladenness of Observations as a Corollary of the Perception Activity -- Impossibility of Drawing a Boundary between Theory and Experience as a Corollary of the Perception Activity -- The Principle of Empirical Holism.

2.4. THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE PICTURE THEORY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL HOLISM PRINCIPLE -- 1. How Does the Sum of Sensations Form Bodies -- 2. How Are Two-Dimensional Retinal Images Transformed into Three-Dimensional Bodies -- 3. How the Knowledge About the Things Outside of the Vision Field Is Possible, for Example, the Knowledge About the Back Side of the Moon -- 4. How the Perception of (Empty) Space Is Possible -- Chapter 3 3. COLOR REALISM AND OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES OF THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF SENSE ORGANS -- 3.1. COLOR AND REALISM: CONTINUITY OF EXPERIENCE AS A SOURCE OF BELIEF IN EXISTENCE -- 3.2. THE COLOR AND COGNITION -- Example of Presetting Influence on the Possibility of Observation -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.