Taste, Gastronomic Expertise and Objectivity

In Fritz Allhoff & Dave Monroe (eds.), Food and Philosophy: Eat, Think, and Be Merry. Wiley-Blackwell (2007)
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In this paper I argue that the best explanation of expertise about taste is that such alleged experts are simply more eloquent in describing the taste experiences that they have than are ordinary tasters.

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