Buried in an arctic mountainside in Norway is the Global Music Vault, a digital data storage facility that is designed to preserve selections of musical culture long into the future....
Carolyn Korsmeyer is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. Korsmeyer’s areas of philosophy include aesthetics, emotion theory, and perception, with special interest in the senses of taste...
...essay “Real Old Things,” Carolyn Korsmeyer argues that genuineness matters to aesthetic value, but that unlike other aesthetic properties, genuineness isn’t perceptual. It is, rather, a matter of causal history....
(Image taken by Masahiro Ihara) Many recent readers of jurist and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, including Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jessica Jacques, Roland Barthes, and Michel Onfray, see his magnum opus entitled...
...the realm of taste. I begin by considering gustatory taste. Key questions are whether such taste is educable and whether a shared standard can be put in place. Carolyn Korsmeyer...
