Price on Expressivism and the Placement Problem

DANIEL ENRIQUE KALPOKAS

Análisis. Revista de Investigación Filosófica

Universidad de Zaragoza

Lugar: Zaragoza; Año: 2014 vol. 1

2386-8066

Price on Expressivism and the Placement Problem Daniel Kalpokas Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Abstract In his article ?Naturalism Without Representationalism?, Price proposes a variety of naturalism ?subject naturalism, as he calls it- that is supposedly able to avoid placement problems about ?odd? entities such as moral facts, meanings, mathematical truths and the like. Assuming an expressivist conception about the entire language, Price argues that placement problems rest on a category mistake: the mistake of considering all sorts of sentences as representing worldly states of affairs. In this article, by arguing against Price?s expressivism, I call his response to placement problems into question. My thesis is that placement problems are genuine ontological problems. Key Words: Subject Naturalism, Representationalism, Global Expressivism; Deflationalism; Truth.