Barry C Smith
Author of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (2007) — Contributor — 669 copies, 8 reviews
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- professor (Birkbeck College, University of London|Philosophy)
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- London, England, UK
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- England, UK
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A collection of essays by different authors on various philosophical topics related to wine: the effect of information on evaluation, the metaphorical language of sensory description, the status of wine as a work of art, etc. Several of the essays are excellent and gave me a lot to contemplate. A few were a bit overwrought or lazily thought out (perhaps the subject was a bit too close at hand during the writing). The book concludes with an interview with winemaker/philosopher Paul Draper of show more Ridge Vineyards, which provides a wonderfully specific counterpoint to the abstractions which preceded it. show less
The non-philosophers are more interesting than the philosophers.
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