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(2014) European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2).
Huw Price has recently argued that representationalism – the notion that the primary function of statements is to represent the world – is an utter failure. In its place he proposes a “global expressivism” that instead links the meaning of statements to how they are used. This makes his global expressivism a kind of pragmatism: a linguistic pragmatism because it focuses on linguistic meaning; a radical pragmatism because it rejects representationalism across the board. Price also introduces a distinction between two types of representation: external representation, which he mostly rejects, and internal representation, which he champions. In this article I weigh the strengths of Price’s radical pragmatism. I conclude that radical pragmatism has significant benefits, especially if we supplement external and internal representation with a third variety that I call operational representation.
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DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.311
Full citation:
Capps, J. (2014). Radical pragmatism: an operator's guide. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2), pp. n/a.
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