Questions of Taste

ROGER SCRUTON: widely published philosopher and writer, wine correspondent for the New Statesman. He has written books on music, art, architecture, and modern philosophy. KENT BACH: philosopher of mind and language from San Francisco State University who is author of Thought and Reference (OUP, 1994). BARRY C SMITH: philosopher of mind and language at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of 'Wine and Philosophy' in The Oxford Companion to Wine, edited by Jancis Robinson TIM CRANE: philosopher of mind and metaphysics at University College London and author of The Mechanical Mind (Penguin, 1997). He has written on wine in The World of Fine Wine. JAMIE GOODE: a trained biochemist and an accomplished wine writer who runs the highly informed website www.winanorak.com. He is about to publish a book on wine with the University of California Press. PAUL DRAPER: chief wine-maker at Ridge Wines, California, and a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University. He was Decanter Man of the Year in 2001. ANDREW JEFFORD: distinguished wine writer and critic. He has five Glenfiddich Wine Writer awards and is the author of an award-winning book, The New France, as well as Peat, Smoke and Spirit on Islay Whiskey. GLORIA ORIGGI: a philosopher who has published widely on the philosophy of mind and language, and on the social transmission of knowledge. STEVE CHARTERS MW: lectures in Wine Studies at Edith Cowan University in Australia. He has written a number of articles on the perception of quality. ADRIENNE LEHRER: a linguist at the University of California at Davis and author of Wine and Conversation. She has analysed and written about the language people use to talk about wine. OPHELIA DEROY: a philosopher who is a member of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, and has written on metaphysics.