Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

352 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000579734

Related ISBNs:

9781003184225, 9781032026190, 9781032003177

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/22/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Jeremy Wyatt, Julia Zakkou, and Dan Zeman

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Language Arts, Philosophy

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Jeremy Wyatt

Edited by:

Julia Zakkou

Edited by:

Dan Zeman