Véronique Decaix is Associate Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (GRAMATA, UMR SPHERE-7219) and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focus is metaphysics and psychology during the Middle Ages, more precisely on intentionality in cognitive processes such as sensation, memory, dream, and intellection. She has recently published a monograph on Dietrich of Freiberg (2021) and co-edited two volumes, Active Cognition (2020) and Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition (2021).

Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Athens and the University of Geneva. She has published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She is currently working on a monograph about ancient theories of colour, as well as on an edition, translation, and commentary of Theophrastus' De sensibus and of Michael Psellos' paraphrase of Aristotle's De interpretation.

Chapter 1

Democritus on the Atomic Shapes of Colours

Attila Németh

Chapter 2

Plato on the Ontological Status of Colours

Katerina Ierodiakonou

Chapter 3

Aristotle on the Appearance of Colour & other Perceptibles

Victor Caston

Chapter 4

Plotinus on Colours

Pauliina Remes

Chapter 5

Are Colours Always There? Elements in Avicenna's Account of Vision

Tommaso Alpina

Chapter 6

Light And Colour in Averroes Between Alexander of Aphrodisias and Ibn B¿¿¿a

Jean-Baptiste Brenet

Chapter 7

"Color Est Lux Incorporata Perspicuo": Robert Grosseteste's Definition of Colour And its (Franciscan) Legacy

Cecilia Panti

Chapter 8

Colours and Their Species - Apparent or Real? Roger Bacon's Mature Colour Theory

Yael Kedar

Chapter 9

Aquinas on Colours and Visibility

Hamid Taieb

Chapter 10

Dietrich of Freiberg on the Generation and Differentiation of Colours

Véronique Decaix

Chapter 11

Colours in Bodies, in the Intermedium, and in the Eye in the Late Sixteenth And Early Seventeenth Centuries

Tawrin Baker

Chapter 12

Colours' Little Souls: Descartes on Sensible Qualities

Mattia Mantovani