Each participant has recommended a few papers that, in his or her view, provide an accessible introduction to the topics within the conference themes that he or she is most interested in discussing.
| Paper | Recommended by | Theme number |
| Kahleen Akins (1996) "On the 'Aboutness' of Sensory Systems," Journal of Philosophy 93(7): 337-372 | Matthen | 4 | Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., Holcombe, A. (2000) Tracking an object through feature-space. Nature, v408, 196-199. | D'Zmura | 4 |
| David Brainard, James M. Kraft, and Philippe Longere, "Color Constancy: Developing Empirical Tests of Computational Models" from Mausfeld, R. & Heyer, D. (eds.), Colour Perception: From Light to Object. Oxford University Press, forthcoming | MacLeod | 1 |
| Alex Byrne and David Hilbert, "Color Realism and Color Science", (forthcoming in Behavioral and Brain Sciences). | Cohen | 1 |
| Jonathan Cohen, "Color Properties and Color Ascriptions: A Relationalist Manifesto" (draft; please do not cite) | Cohen | 1 |
| Don Dedrick, Naming the Rainbow: Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998. | Jameson | 3 |
| D'Zmura, M. (1991). "Color in visual search." Vision Research 31: 951-966. | Hilbert | 3, 4 |
| D'Zmura, M., Colantoni, P. & Hagedorn, J. (2001). Perception of color change. Color Research and Applications S26, S186-S191. | D'Zmura | 4 |
| D'Zmura, M., Colantoni, P., Knoblauch, K. & Laget, B. (1997). Color transparency. Perception 26, 471-492. | D'Zmura | 4 |
| C. L. Hardin, "Philosophy and Color", chapter 7 of Color for Science, Art, and Technology, ed. Kurt Nassau. Elsevier, 1998. | Hardin | 1 |
| C. L. Hardin, "Basic Color Terms and Basic Color Categories", Chapter 11 of Backhaus, Kliegl, and Werner, Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1998. | Hardin | 3 |
| Gary Hatfield, "Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited: Color as a Psychobiological Property" from Mausfeld, R. & Heyer, D. (eds.), Colour Perception: From Light to Object. Oxford University Press, forthcoming | Mausfeld | 4 |
| E. Hering, Outlines of a Theory of the Light Sense (trans. by L.M. Hurvich and D. Jameson), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1920/1964. Chapter I. On the Nature of Colors. (pp. 1-24) | Werner | 1, 3 |
| E. Hering, Outlines of a Theory of the Light Sense (trans. by L.M. Hurvich and D. Jameson), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1920/1964. Chapter II. The Natural Color System (pp. 25-65) | Werner | 1, 3 |
| E. Hering, Outlines of a Theory of the Light Sense (trans. by L.M. Hurvich and D. Jameson), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1920/1964. Chapter X. Relations Between Chromatic Color Qualities and Frequency of Light Rays (pp. 287-309) | Werner | 1, 3 |
| Dorothea Jameson and Leo M. Hurvich (1978). "Dichromatic Color Language: `Reds' and `Greens' Don't Look Alike But Their Colors Do." Sensory Processes 2:146--155. | Broackes | 1 |
| Jameson, K.A., S. Highnote and L. Wasserman. (2001). "Richer Color Experience in Observers with Multiple Photopigment Opsin Genes." Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8(2), 244--261. | Jameson | 1 |
| Jameson, K. A. (under review). "Culture and Cognition: What is Universal about the Representation of Color Experience?" | Jameson | 3 |
| Kraft, J. M. and D. H. Brainard (1999). "Mechanisms of color constancy under nearly natural viewing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96(1): 307-312. | Hilbert | 1 |
| Donald MacLeod, "Colour Discrimination, Colour Constancy, and Natural Scene Statistics" from J. D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, and K. Knoblauch (eds.), Proceedings of the Thomas Young Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society 2001. Oxford University Press, forthcoming | MacLeod | 1, 4 |
| Donald MacLeod, "Influence of Scene Statistics on Colour Constancy" Nature v415, pp 637--640, 2002 | MacLeod | 1 |
| Donald MacLeod and Jürgen Golz, "A computational analysis of colour constancy" from Mausfeld, R. & Heyer, D. (eds.), Colour Perception: From Light to Object. Oxford University Press, forthcoming | Mausfeld, MacLeod | 4 |
| Mohan Matthen, "The Disunity of Color," The Philosophical Review 107 (1999): 47--84. | Matthen | 1 |
| Rainer Mausfeld, "The dual coding of colour: 'Surface colour' and 'illumination colour' as constituents of the representational format of perceptual primitives" from Mausfeld, R. & Heyer, D. (eds.), Colour Perception: From Light to Object. Oxford University Press, forthcoming | Mausfeld | 4 |
| J. D. Mollon, "Cherries among the leaves: the evolutionary origins of color vision," from Steven Davis (ed.), Color Perception: Philosophical, Psychological, Artistic and Computational Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2000. | Byrne | 2 |
| Thomas Nagel (1974). "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", The Philosophical Review 83(4): 435-450. | McLaughlin | 1 |
| Dale Purves, online demonstrations of color phenomena. | Hardin | 1, 3 |
| W.V.O. Quine "Natural Kinds," from Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (Columbia, 1969) | Matthen | 3 |
| Regan, B. C., C. Julliot, et al. (2001). "Fruits, foliage and the evolution of primate colour vision." Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London, Series B 356(1407): 229-283. | Hilbert, Cohen | 2, 3, 4 |
| Swain, M. J. and D. H. Ballard (1991). "Color indexing" International Journal of Computer Vision 7(1): 11-32. | Hilbert | 3 |
| Evan Thompson (1995). Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception. New York: Routledge. pp 1-37. | McLaughlin | 1 |
| Evan Thompson, "Comparative color vision: quality space and visual ecology," from Steven Davis (ed.), Color Perception: Philosophical, Psychological, Artistic and Computational Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2000. | Byrne | 1, 3, 4 |
| Paul Whittle, "Contrast Colours", from Mausfeld, R. & Heyer, D. (eds.), Colour Perception: From Light to Object. Oxford University Press, forthcoming | MacLeod | 1 |