I’ve said it many times, in many different forums, in many different ways, and I will say it again: making writers talk, socialize, or leave their homes is cruel and unusual.
On Kirwin's account, idiosyncracy of taste arises from idiosyncracy of value expertise. The chocolate lover possesses expertise in the value of chocolate that the vanilla lover lacks (and the same goes for artforms, genres, and specific works that are valuable but not universally beloved). If that's right, then the difference between the disagreements of idiosyncratic taste and disagreements in aesthetic judgement might be a difference in the degree of public access to the relevant aesthetic reasons (rather than, say, a difference in kind based on whether there is objective aesthetic value at issue).
Have yet to make the Zingerman’s trip despite going to Michigan… it must be done. (Also - pestering my UChi friends to go so there’ll be more witnesses to the hopefully-not-so squirmy spectacle.)
You might be interested in this essay by Claire Kirwin, "Value Realism and Idiosyncracy", in which she argues that even matters such as chocolate vs. vanilla are matters of objective value: https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MHbJEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA24&ots=Y26lZmOuHY&sig=fwG3uX0iRcofIZjHQ2cA3rw1cFc&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
On Kirwin's account, idiosyncracy of taste arises from idiosyncracy of value expertise. The chocolate lover possesses expertise in the value of chocolate that the vanilla lover lacks (and the same goes for artforms, genres, and specific works that are valuable but not universally beloved). If that's right, then the difference between the disagreements of idiosyncratic taste and disagreements in aesthetic judgement might be a difference in the degree of public access to the relevant aesthetic reasons (rather than, say, a difference in kind based on whether there is objective aesthetic value at issue).
oh thank you! excited to check this out!
Literati! So excited. (As cruel and unusual as it is to make writers talk.)
Me too! I have been craving Zingerman’s since I went to debate camp at Michigan in like 2007 lol
Have yet to make the Zingerman’s trip despite going to Michigan… it must be done. (Also - pestering my UChi friends to go so there’ll be more witnesses to the hopefully-not-so squirmy spectacle.)
Bummer you're coming to Vermont. Break a leg. Oh, and the review? Spot on!!