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

ISBN-13: 9781032003177 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 352 str.

Jeremy Wyatt; Julia Zakkou; Dan Zeman

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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