What Does Taste Represent?

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (1):28-37 (2017)
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What does vision represent? What does hearing represent? Smell? Touch? Competing answers to each of these questions have been defended. The present paper argues that the issue of what taste represents is categorically more complicated. In particular, it raises two very difficult dilemmas.

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