Whorfian Effects in Color Perception: Deep or Shallow?

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Lalumera, Elisabetta¹ 

[1] University of Milano Bicocca, Italy$$University of Milano Bicocca, ItalyUniversity of Milano Bicocca, Italy$$

关键词: color perception;    whorfianism;    philosophy of psychology;    cognitive differences;   

DOI  :  10.4148/1944-3676.1086

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: New Prairie Press

【 摘 要 】

This paper discusses, from the point of view of the philosophy of psychology, recent behavioral and brain studies showing effects of the diversity of language vocabulary on color perception. I examine the alternative between two different interpretations of these so-called whorfian effects, namely habitual or deep whorfianism, and shallow whorfianism. I argue that at the moment the evidence underdetermines both interpretations and the question is open. I also clarify that shallow whorfianism is not a synonym for ‘trivial whorfianism�?, as some authors have suggested, but rather makes a case for the online and situated nature of human cognition.

【 授权许可】

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