Taste

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s corn! A big lump with knobs, it has the juice, I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing. Wise words about corn that relate to the sense of taste. In episode 67 of Overthink, Ellie and David finish their series on the five senses talking about the gustatory experience. They consider if taste is merely a subjective experience or are there some things that objectively taste good? Ellie and David discuss how having good taste relates to the perceptual experience of taste and why taste is such a big part of community.

Works Discussed

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
A. S. Barwich, Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind
David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste
Carolyn Korsmeyer, Making Sense of Taste
Mengzi, Mengzi
Passport to Paris (1999)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Overthink.
0:13.6	The podcast where we make all manner of phenomena interesting by showing how philosophy can shed light on them.
0:21.6	David, do you remember shedding light was an original idea we had for our podcast name?
0:26.4	I forgot, but yes. Can you imagine if we've named ourselves that rather than
0:31.5	overthrith? Philosophy in the flesh was another terrible option.
0:35.2	No, I love that one.
0:37.0	No, it's also bad.
0:39.1	Remember we got to that delirious moment where we combined philosophy in the flesh and shedding
0:44.2	light and were cackling over the possibility of naming our podcast fleshlight?
0:49.3	Oh, my God.
0:50.9	Yes.
0:51.7	Talk about names that should have never seen the light of day. That one didn't see the light of day, but now we are shedding light on it, I will say. We do have to still introduce ourselves for real. Fair enough. Fair enough. Go for it. I'm Professor Ellie Anderson. And I'm Professor David Pena-Gusman. David, how do you feel about corn? Well, I'm Mexican, so I'm Professor David Pena Guzman. David, how do you feel about corn?
1:12.8	Well, I'm Mexican, so I love corn in all its forms.
1:17.4	Corn tortillas, corn on the cob, children of the corn.
1:23.5	Children of the corn.
1:26.8	It's the sequel. That's actually our new podcast name is now Children of the Cobb. It's the sequel.
1:28.5	That's actually our new podcast name is now Children of the Cobb.
1:32.9	Okay, yeah, good call.
1:33.9	I mean, I don't understand how you couldn't at least love the taste of corn.
1:37.5	I know some people are sensitive to corn.
1:39.4	Like, it's an allergen for them.
1:40.5	But the taste is delicious.
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