Perspectives on Taste
Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2022
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-032-00317-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Our everyday lives are suffused with discussions about taste. We are quick to offer familiar platitudes about taste, but we struggle when facing the questions that matter-what taste is, how it is related to subjectivity, what distinguishes good from bad taste, why it is valuable to make and evaluate judgments about matters of taste, and what, exactly, we mean in speaking about these matters. The essays in this volume open up new, intersecting lines of research about these questions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. They address the notion of aesthetic taste; connections between taste and the natures of truth, disagreement, assertion, belief, retraction, linguistic context-sensitivity, and the semantics/pragmatics interface; experimental inquiry about taste; and metaphysical questions underlying ongoing discussions about taste.
Perspectives on Taste will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, and experimental philosophy.
Our everyday lives are suffused with discussions about taste. We are quick to offer familiar platitudes about taste, but we struggle when facing the questions that matter-what taste is, how it is related to subjectivity, what distinguishes good from bad taste, why it is valuable to make and evaluate judgments about matters of taste, and what, exactly, we mean in speaking about these matters. The essays in this volume open up new, intersecting lines of research about these questions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. They address the notion of aesthetic taste; connections between taste and the natures of truth, disagreement, assertion, belief, retraction, linguistic context-sensitivity, and the semantics/pragmatics interface; experimental inquiry about taste; and metaphysical questions underlying ongoing discussions about taste.
Perspectives on Taste will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, and experimental philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
16 s/w Abbildungen, 16 s/w Zeichnungen, 8 s/w Tabellen
8 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
675 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-00317-7 (9781032003177)
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Jeremy Wyatt | Julia Zakkou | Dan Zeman
Perspectives on Taste
Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy
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Jeremy Wyatt | Julia Zakkou | Dan Zeman
Perspectives on Taste
Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy
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Routledge
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Jeremy Wyatt | Julia Zakkou | Dan Zeman
Perspectives on Taste
Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy
E-Book
04/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€53.99
Available for download
Persons
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 Hincu) is forthcoming with Routledge.
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 Hincu) is forthcoming with Routledge.
Content
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