BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260415T174446Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140314T050000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140314T130000 SUMMARY:Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste UID:20260417T153944Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-x5n6c TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Senate House\, Malet Street\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1E 7HU DESCRIPTION:

This workshop will bring together researchers in aesthetics\, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all these domains: aesthetic adjectives\, such as &lsquo\;beautiful&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;ugly&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;elegant&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;unified&rsquo\;\, and their role in disagreements about taste. Although theorists working on the semantics of adjectives have developed sophisticated theories about gradable adjectives generally and have explored the closely related class of adjectives known as predicates of &lsquo\;personal taste&rsquo\; (e.g.\, &lsquo\;tasty&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;fun&rsquo\;)\, they have tended to avoid studying aesthetic adjectives\, which play a central role in the evaluation of art. At the same time\, philosophical aestheticians have a longstanding interest in the nature and use of aesthetic adjectives\, perhaps most closely associated with the work of Frank Sibley. But despite the interest in aesthetic language in general and aesthetic adjectives in particular\, philosophical aestheticians have been notably resistant to engaging with the current theories of the semantics of adjectives that are found in linguistics and philosophy of language. The aim of this workshop is to help remedy these lacunae by enhancing the dialogue between aesthetics on the one hand\, and philosophy of language and linguistics on the other. \;

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