On Wyatt's Absolutist Account of Faultless Disagreement in Matters of Personal Taste

Abstract

In this critical paper, we engage with a recent absolutist proposal to account for faultless disagreementthat of Jeremy Wyatt. We first introduce the phenomenon to be explained and briefly present Wyatt's account. The bulk of the paper is dedicated to spelling out objections to various aspects of the view, which are related to his adherence to semantic minimalism, the interpretation of the empirical data he relies on, and his construal of both faultlessness and disagreement. We end with a comparison of the proposal with other views on the market from the point of view of theoretical economy.