Wittgenstein, Veronese, and Ginger Rogers: what does 'red' mean?

Professor Paul Smith (University of Warwick) explores Wittgenstein’s arguments about how colour words may not mean what they do because they refer to qualia or exhibited chromatic properties, and how (instead) they mean different things inside different ‘language-games’. 

He aims to show more especially how the particular ‘coloured path’ between terms in any language-game affects their ‘grammar’, and how colours are distinguished – and grouped together – in different cultures and situations, as a result of how language affects what we see them ‘as’.  

Admission is free, everyone is welcome!