A bottle of Jack Daniels is intoxicating if you drink enough of it. The ambient music of Steve Roach is intoxicating as well. Clearly, they
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Can You Convince a Coke Lover to Prefer Pepsi?
A variety of studies (e.g. here, and here) have shown that brands make foods taste better. Judgments about quality are influenced by price, image, and
Criticism and Objectivity: A Moral Imperative
Questions about the objectivity of food or wine appreciation could be easily resolved if a certain picture of how taste works were true. That picture
Queer Flavors
The question of whether flavors are “in the wine” or “in the mind” is difficult to answer, in part, because even experienced wine tasters disagree
Wine, Art, and the Value of Dirt and Sky
This has been a very active week for the philosophy of wine in the blogosphere. This paper by philosopher Barry Smith discussing the objectivity of
Wine, Objectivity, and a Taste for Purple Haze
Any consideration of objectivity in wine tasting must take into consideration a fundamental fact. Our experiences of taste and smell are not “pure” or “uninterpreted”
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