Access through your institution Buy or subscribe READINGS ON COLOR: VOLUME 1 – THE PHILOSOPHY OF COLOR; VOLUME 2 – THE SCIENCE OF COLOR Edited by: * _Alex Byrne & _ * _David R. Hilbert_

MIT Press: 1997. Pp.317/465$50, £42.50, (hbk), $30, £25.50 (pbk) each Are tomatoes red in the dark? If your interest in this question was extinguished by late-night discussions with your

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