ABSTRACT
Huw Price champions the virtues of a pragmatist expressivism which generalizes to the whole of language the early 20th century expressivist strategy – adopted, e.g., by the logical positivists – of explaining the functions of problematic parts of language (paradigmatically ethical language) in non-representational terms. In this paper I want to examine the merits of Price’s position and, in particular, to bring an objection against its instrumental approach to the function of truth which is, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, also applicable to the instrumental theory of truth propounded by the classical pragmatist William James.
