Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this
book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against …

Lookism refers to discrimination based on physical attractiveness or the lack thereof. A
whole host of empirical research suggests that lookism is a pervasive and systematic form 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 …

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 …

What does the aesthetic ask of us? What claims do the aesthetic features of the objects and
events in our environment make on us? My answer in this paper is: that depends. Aesthetic …

According to Cappelen (2012), analytic philosophers have traditionally used two arguments
to defend the role of intuitions in philosophy. On the one hand, The Argument from …

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy are state-of-the-art surveys of emerging, newly
refreshed, and important fields in philosophy, providing accessible yet thorough …

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 this critical paper, we engage with a recent absolutist proposal to account for faultless
disagreement—that of Jeremy Wyatt. We first introduce the phenomenon to be explained …