This chapter surveys the contemporary debate in philosophy of language and linguistics
about value judgments. Under this label we find different kinds of judgments such as 'Torture …

Faultless disagreement and faultless retraction have been taken to motivate relativism for
predicates of personal taste, like 'tasty'. Less attention has been devoted to the question of …

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 …

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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 …

This paper argues that there is a class of terms, or uses of terms, that are best accounted for
by an expressivist account. We put forward two sets of criteria to distinguish between …

Truth and Norms: Normative Alethic Pluralism and Evaluative Disagreements engages three
philosophical topics and the relationships among them. Filippo Ferrari first contributes to the …

The nature of moral judgments, and, more specifically, the question of how they relate, on
the one hand, to objective reality and, on the other, to subjective experience, are issues that …

Judgments of taste are often assumed to be evaluative in the sense of expressing either a
positive or a negative assessment of the object under evaluation. However, the evaluative …

Some disagreements seem to be persistent: they are, pretty much, immune to persuasive
argumentation. If that is the case, how can they be overcome? Can argumentation help us? I …