Moral relativism is an important topic in metaethics. It is also widely discussed outside
philosophy (for example, by political and religious leaders), and it is controversial among …

Though much of what we learn about the world comes from trusting testimony, the status of
aesthetic testimony–testimony about aesthetic value–is equivocal. We do listen to art critics …

In this chapter, I tackle the phenomenon known as “faultless disagreement,” considered by
many authors to pose a challenge to the main views on the semantics of subjective …

Widespread moral disagreement raises ethical, epistemological, political, and metaethical
questions. Is the best explanation of our widespread moral disagreements that there are no …

Debates about the semantics and pragmatics of predicates of personal taste (PPT) have
largely centered on contextualist and relativist proposals. In this paper, I argue in favor of an …

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Predicates of personal taste (PPT) have attracted a great deal of attention from philosophers
of language and linguists. In the intricate debates over PPT, arguably the most central …

People disagree frequently, about both objective and subjective matters. But while at least
one party must be wrong in a disagreement about objective matters, it seems that both …

In some cases of disagreement it seems that neither party is at fault or making a mistake.
This phenomenon, so-called faultless disagreement, has recently been invoked as a key …

When we say that a dress looks blue, or that a musical instrument sounds off-key, or that a
soup smells like it contains nutmeg, what do we communicate? With claims about …