The Nature of Taste: from science to aesthetics

Announcing the launch of the Institute of Philosophy’s Centre for the Study of the Senses (http://censeproject.wordpress.com/) and the first event of a new project on The Nature of Taste (in conjunction with NYU Institute of Philosophy and the Northern Institute of Philosophy).

Centre for the Senses Launch Event

The Nature of Taste: from science to aesthetics
Thursday 3 December 2009
10.00 - 17.30, ST273, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1

Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)
Cognitive Penetration and Taste

Andy Taylor & Joanne Hort (Nottingham)
Flavour – the most mysterious sense?

Ophelia Deroy (Paris XII)
Tasting Shapes: Metaphor or Synaesthesia?

Andy Hamilton (Durham)
The Art Of Criticism: Vindicating An Aesthetic Conception Against Elitism And Populism

Programme http://www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk/TasteWorkshop.htm