Department of Philosophy
University of Fribourg
Av. de l'Europe 20
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland

E-mail : vivian@mizrahi.ch

 
Researcher at University of Fribourg for the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation), my main areas of research are color, philosophy of perception, philosophy of science and ontology.

My PhD dissertation Une nouvelle théorie objectiviste des couleurs promotes a new approach to color objectivism. Unike most color objectivist theories, it is claimed that uniform colored surfaces have many different objective colors. I contend that rejecting the idea that an object can have locally only one color solves most difficulties faced by objectivist theories.

Directed by Martine Nida-Rümelin, our current research project investigates the ontological assumptions and the role of color sensations in color sciences.

 

Papers

  • "Color and transparency", Rivista di Estetica, 43:1, 2010. Draft
  • "Is colour composition phenomenal?", in D. Skusevich and P. Matikas (eds), Color Perception: Physiology, Processes and Analysis, chap. 6, Nova Science Publishers, 2009, pp. 185-202. Draft
  • "Color objectivism and color pluralism", Dialectica, Vol. 60, No. 3. (September 2006), pp. 283-306. Draft
  • with M. Nida-Rümelin, "Introduction", Dialectica, Vol. 60, No. 3. (September 2006), pp. 209-222.

Book

  • with M. Nida-Rümelin (ed), “The Ontology of Colors”, Dialectica, Vol. 60, No. 3. (September 2006).