Cain Todd

Cain Todd

Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University, and Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of Fribourg.

Visit Cain Todd’s website here. An overview of his publications can be found here.

Presentation

Objectivity, Relativism, and Disagreements about Taste
Friday, 7 October 2011
16:00-18:00 at Senate House, Room G22/G26

The aim of this paper is to examine the nature of disagreement concerning matters of taste (and smell), focussing on the case of wine. First, I offer a defence of the objectivity of a certain class of judgements about wine and an account of the nature of justification involved therein. Second, I defend a particular relativist position concerning certain evaluative judgements about wine. Finally, I explore the implications of these issues for the possibility and plausibility of what has been called ‘faultless disagreement’ in judgements of taste.

Wine tasting

This presentation was followed by a wine tasting.