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

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.

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 Hîncu) is forthcoming with Routledge.