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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.
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