Abstract
There are currently two views about the standard of taste proposed by Hume in his essay Of the Standard of Taste. According to PeterJones and Stuart Brown,' the standard consists in rules, while Peter Kivy and Ted Cohen2 have claimed that the standard is the joint verdict of what Hume calls judges. I will argue in this paper that there is a sense in which both of these views are correct. The standard of taste cannot consist in the verdicts of true judges, because these judges may be wrong. This indicates that there is an independent standard of taste, namely the rules of art. But although Hume thinks that these rules are the standard, he also thinks that the verdicts of true judges are a good guide to what the rules are, and so function as a practical standard of taste.
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