Price on Expressivims and the Placement Problem

DANIEL KALPOKAS

La Rioja

Simposio; III Coloquio Internacional Pragmatista; 2016

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.