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Conceptual engineering is a newly flourishing branch of philosophy which investigates problems with our concepts and considers how they might be ameliorated: 'truth', for instance, is susceptible to paradox, and it's not clear what 'race' stands for. This is the first collective exploration of possibilities and problems of conceptual engineering.
List of contents
- Note to Readers
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: A Guided Tour of Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics Herman Cappelen and David Plunkett
- Abstracts of Chapters
- 2. Revisionary Analysis without Meaning Change (Or, Could Women Be Analytically Oppressed?) Derek Ball
- 3. Minimal Substantivity Delia Belleri
- 4. Reactive Concepts: Engineering the Concept CONCEPT David Braddon-Mitchell
- 5. Strategic Conceptual Engineering for Epistemic and Social Aims Ingo Brigandt and Esther Rosario
- 6. Never Say 'Never Say "Never"'? Alexis Burgess
- 7. Conceptual Engineering: The Master Argument Herman Cappelen
- 8. Preliminary Scouting Reports from the Outer Limits of Conceptual Engineering Josh Dever
- 9. Descriptive vs. Ameliorative Projects: The Role of Normative Considerations E. Díaz-León
- 10. Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics Matti Eklund
- 11. Neutralism and Conceptual Engineering Patrick Greenough
- 12. Going On, Not in the Same Way Sally Haslanger
- 13. The Theory-Theory Approach to Ethics Frank Jackson
- 14. Conceptual Ethics and the Methodology of Normative Inquiry Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett
- 15. Conceptual Evaluation: Epistemic Alejandro Pérez Carballo
- 16. Analyzing Concepts and Allocating Referents Philip Pettit
- 17. The A-project and the B-project Mark Richard
- 18. Talk and Thought Sarah Sawyer
- 19. Philosophy as the Study of Defective Concepts Kevin Scharp
- 20. Linguistic Intervention and Transformative Communicative Disruptions Rachel Katharine Sterken
- 21. A Pragmatic Method for Normative Conceptual Work Amie L. Thomasson
- Index
About the author
Alexis Burgess is an independent philosopher based in Los Angeles.
Herman Cappelen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and at the University of St Andrews. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Inquiry. Cappelen works in all areas of systematic philosophy and has written, co-written, or edited more than ten books and many articles.
David Plunkett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.
Summary
Conceptual engineering is a newly flourishing branch of philosophy which investigates problems with our concepts and considers how they might be ameliorated: 'truth', for instance, is susceptible to paradox, and it's not clear what 'race' stands for. This is the first collective exploration of possibilities and problems of conceptual engineering.
