# Colour **Abstract:** The view that physical objects do not, in fact, possess colour properties is certainly the dominant position among scientists working on colour vision. It is also a reasonably popular view among philosophers. However, the recent philosophical debate about the metaphysical status of colour properties seems to have taken a more realist turn. In this article I review the main philosophical views – eliminativism, physicalism, dispositionalism and primitivism and describe the problems they face. I also examine how these views have been classified, and suggest that there may be less disparity between some of these positions than previously thought. **Authors:** [[Gow]]