What is Global Expressivism?

Matthew Simpson

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Global expressivism is the radical view that we should never think of any of our language and thought as representing the world. While interesting, global expressivism has not yet been clearly formulated, and its defenders often use unexplained terms of art to characterise their view. I fix this problem by carefully and clearly exploring the different ways in which we can interpret globalism. I reject almost all of them either because they are implausible or because they are bad interpretations of actual globalist views. I then argue that the most promising version of globalism, which we can find in the work of Huw Price, turns out to be completely compatible with the view of so-called 'local' expressivists. The debate between globalists and localists is therefore empty: the real interest in this topic lies not in this debate but in whether globalism is true and if so what follows from it.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)140-161
Number of pages22
JournalPhilosophical Quarterly
Volume70
Issue number278
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Deflationism
  • Expressivism
  • Global expressivism
  • Pragmatism
  • Representation

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