Should expressivists go global?

Matthew Simpson*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Moral expressivists think that moral thoughts and sentences don’t represent or describe the world, at least not in any interesting sense. Global expressivists think that no thoughts or sentences represent the world; local expressivists think that some do and others don’t. Huw Price has influentially argued that local expressivism collapses into global expressivism, due both to the effects of minimalist theories of representation and similar concepts, and to an unappreciated consequence of the success of specific expressivist theories like moral expressivism. In this paper I argue that Price’s arguments don’t succeed. While they can be fixed, doing so makes them miss their intended target. Local expressivists should therefore not be worried by Price’s arguments.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2275-2289
Number of pages15
JournalPhilosophical Studies
Volume180
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 May 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Expressivism
  • Global expressivism
  • Pragmatism
  • Price

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