ABSTRACT
Salience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic. Salience is clearly of significance for a broad range of philosophical problems but rarely, if ever, has salience itself been the theme. Matthew Ratcliffe and Matthew R. Broome consider both appeals to ‘salience dysregulation’ or ‘aberrant salience’ and ‘affordances’ in understanding psychiatric illness. They argue that these terms lack the necessary discriminatory power to be anything more than a starting point. Ethan Nowak and Eliot Michaelson discuss the role of salience in fixing the reference of demonstrative expressions. Susanna Siegel proposes what she calls a ‘salience principle of importance’, which states that journalists in democracies should make salient information that is important for the public to know about.
