Price on Expressivism and the Placement Problem

DANIEL ENRIQUE KALPOKAS

Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica

Prensas de la universidad de Zaragoza

Lugar: Zaragoza; Año: 2014 vol. 1 p. 101 - 119

In his article "Naturalism Without Representationalism", Price proposes avariety of naturalism ?subject naturalism, as he calls it- that is supposedly ableto avoid placement problems about "odd" entities such as moral facts,meanings, mathematical truths and the like. Assuming an expressivistconception about the entire language, Price argues that placement problems rest on a category mistake: the mistake of considering all sorts of sentences asrepresenting worldly states of affairs. In this article, by arguing against Price?sexpressivism, I call his response to placement problems into question. Mythesis is that placement problems are genuine ontological problems.