On Wyatt's Absolutism about Predicates of Taste
Dan Zeman  1@  , Mihai Hincu  2@  
1 : University of Vienna [Vienna]
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien -  Autriche
2 : Valahia University of Targoviste [Roumanie]  (UVT)  -  Site web
B-dul Unirii 18-20, 130082, TargovisteUniversitatea VALAHIA din TargovisteBd. Carol I, Nr. 2, 130024, Targoviste, Dambovita, ROMANIA -  Roumanie

In this paper we engage with a recent absolutist view about predicates of taste: that of Wyatt (2017). Wyatt's view has the main advantage of providing a neat account of faultless disagreement, a phenomenon that has been taken to be problematic both for contextualism and absolutism. Wyatt's accont is based on two claims: that the semantic content of utterances of sentences conatinig predicaets of taste is different from the content of belief and assertions of such utterncess; and that disagrement is best construed as a clash of conative attitudes. We point out several negative aspects of each of these claims, and show that, while prima facie a promising way to fend off the challenge from faultless disagrement, ultimately the attempt is more problematic than envisaged.


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