Perspectives on Taste

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 matterâwhat 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. . Language: English