USING “NOT TASTY” AT THE DINNER TABLE

• Authors: Davies Alex
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

John MacFarlane argues against objectivism about “tasty”/“not tasty” in the following way. If objectivism were true then, given that speakers use “tasty”/“not tasty” in accordance with a rule, TP, speakers would be using an evidently unreliable method to form judgements and make claims about what is tasty. Since this is implausible, objectivism must be false. In this paper, the author describes a context in which speakers deviate from TP. He argues that MacFarlane’s argument against objectivism fails when applied to uses of “not tasty” within this context. So objectivism about “not tasty” is still a viable position within this context.

Keywords

EN

MACFARLANE JOHN; OBJECTIVISM; PERSONAL TASTE; RELATIVISM; SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 405 - 426

Contributors

author

Davies Alex

• Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, 51014 Tartu, Estonia