This is a bit off the wine and food beat but it’s about taste so perhaps it’s not too much of a stretch at all.
Category: General Aesthetics
How Does Music Express Emotion and Does That Help Explain How Wine Expresses Emotion?
As you know if you’ve been reading this blog I’ve long been interested in the expressive potential of music and wine, especially regarding the expression
Please, Please Disagree About Wine or Anything Beautiful
One of the most pervasive ideas in modern aesthetics, including wine aesthetics, is the idea that when I claim an object is beautiful (stunning, elegant,
On Beauty: The Ancients Had it All Wrong
My Three Quarks column this month is not about wine exactly, but it is about beauty and some wines are beautiful. So it sort of
Difficult Beauty
Throughout much of the history of aesthetics beauty has been the term of highest aesthetic praise, referring to objects that exhibit perfect symmetry, proportion and
Tasteless Philosophy
Despite their preoccupation with the analysis of sensory experience, philosophers have ignored taste, smell, and touch, focusing instead on vision as the most important sense.
