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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tasting in Time
T2 - the affective and temporal dimensions of flavour perception
AU - Todd, Cain Samuel
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - This paper explores some connections between flavour perception, emotion, and temporal experience. Focussing on the question, If you like that taste of X and I do not, are we tasting the same thing X?, I will approach it by looking at some differences between how experts and nonexperts ‘taste’. I will eventually answer that if by ‘the same thing’ we mean the overall flavour profile of a complex sensory object, then the answer must be negative. I will argue that there is indeed a relatively trivial sense in which one tastes the same thing, but that this is not an experience of flavour. In the process I will reject the view that there are real emergent flavour properties.
AB - This paper explores some connections between flavour perception, emotion, and temporal experience. Focussing on the question, If you like that taste of X and I do not, are we tasting the same thing X?, I will approach it by looking at some differences between how experts and nonexperts ‘taste’. I will eventually answer that if by ‘the same thing’ we mean the overall flavour profile of a complex sensory object, then the answer must be negative. I will argue that there is indeed a relatively trivial sense in which one tastes the same thing, but that this is not an experience of flavour. In the process I will reject the view that there are real emergent flavour properties.
U2 - 10.1093/monist/ony006
DO - 10.1093/monist/ony006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 101
SP - 277
EP - 293
JO - The Monist
JF - The Monist
SN - 0026-9662
IS - 3
ER -