Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy

Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy

Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy

Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy

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Overview

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at the heart of lively debates in philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032026190
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/26/2024
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato. He is an editor or co-editor of Pluralisms in Truth and Logic (2018), The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd ed. (2021), and Truth: Concept Meets Property (Synthese, 2021). His articles have appeared in Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Inquiry.

Julia Zakkou is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She is the author of Faultless Disagreement (2019) and a co-editor of the Inquiry special issue Semantic Variability (2021). Her articles have appeared in Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Semantics and Pragmatics, Mind and Language, Philosophy Compass, Inquiry, and Thought.

Dan Zeman is Adjunct Professor at the University of Warsaw. He is a co-editor of Relativism about Value (2012) and New Work on Disagreement (Synthese, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in Thought, Dialectica, Linguistics and Philosophy, Philosophia, Critica, Inquiry, and Theoria. His monograph Disagreement in Semantics (co-authored with Mihai Hîncu) is forthcoming with Routledge.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Trajectory of Gustatory Taste 3. Over-Appreciating Appreciation 4. Aesthetic Taste: Perceptual Discernment or Emotional Sensibility? 5. De Gustibus Est Disputandum: an Empirical Investigation of the Folk Concept of Aesthetic Taste 6. Contextualism vs. Relativism: More Empirical Data 7. Disagreements and Disputes about Matters of Taste 8. How to Canberra-Plan Disagreement: Platitudes, Taste, Preferences 9. Non-Indexical Contextualism, Relativism, and Retraction 10. Perspectival Content and Semantic Composition 11. Exploring Valence in Judgments of Taste 12. Differences of Taste: Analyzing Phenomenal and Non-Phenomenal Appearance Sentences 13. Individual and Stage-Level Predicates of Personal Taste: Another Argument for Genericity as the Source of Faultless Disagreement 14. Taste and the Ontology of Impersonal Perception Reports

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