Date: November 16, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: 227 Humanities Building
About: Barry will visit prof. O’Callaghan’s Philosophy of Perception seminar on The Senses on Wednesday, Nov 16, from 2:00 to 4:00pm in Humanities 227. The session will be open to interested faculty, students, and visitors, and it will operate as a workshop session focused on some of Barry’s work on the nature of flavor, the sense of taste, and wine. Please come! Barry will say a few brief introductory remarks, 5 to 10 mins, then the floor will open for discussion. It is requested that participants review the papers before the session.

Speaker: Barry Smith
Director of the Institute of Philosophy and of the Center for the Study of the Senses
University of London
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: 117 Humanities Building
Abstract: This talk will explore the nature of tastes and tasting. Are tastes in the food and liquids we consume or merely subjective experiences in us? Is there a difference between what expert and novice tasters perceive, or do experts just know more about what they are eating or drinking? I will defend the claim that there are objective facts about the flavours of the foods and wines we consume and look at the different ways experts and novices come to know about them.