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This book develops novel connections between conceptual engineering and a variety of fields and methods in analytic philosophy. Conceptual engineering is an exciting new movement in contemporary analytic philosophy that focuses on assessing and improving our concepts. In less than a decade, it has successfully spanned across the whole discipline. Based on lectures by leading philosophers at the Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar 2020/2022, this volume offers new perspectives on this wide array of topics and connects them to case studies of high philosophical, scientific, or social/political significance. This book is a must-read for professional philosophers, experts in metaphilosophy or those interested in applying the methods of conceptual engineering to issues in their own areas of specialization. It is also of great interest to philosophy students, eager to get acquainted with the most exciting and dynamic methodological developments of their discipline.
List of contents
Introduction (Kevin Scharp, Manuel Gustavo Isaac, & Steffen Koch).- 1 Conceptual engineering in context (Frank Jackson).- 2 Conceptual engineering, the value of knowledge, and the value of understanding (Jennifer Nado).- 3 Engineering evidence (Mona Simion).- 4 Engineering a concept of epistemic justification (Sanford Goldberg).- 5 Conceptual ethics and the categories of Ideal Theory and Non-ideal Theory in political philosophy: A proposal for abandonment (Tristram McPherson & David Plunkett).- 6 Representing or shaping reality? What class can teach about woman (Teresa Marques).- 7 Engineering ideologically defective concepts (Mari Mikkola).- 8 Conceptual engineering: Rethinking race (Kwame Anthony Appiah).
About the author
Manuel Gustavo Isaac is currently Postdoc.Mobility Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at Arché Philosophical Research Centre (University of St Andrews). He received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Paris for a thesis in Historical epistemology. He has received several prestigious grants and fellowships for research projects on conceptual engineering. His work has been published in Synthese, Ratio, Inquiry, Erkenntnis, Philosophia, History and Philosophy of Logic, Logica Universalis, and several Springer book series among others. Dr. Isaac is the organizer of Arché’s seminar on conceptual engineering.
Kevin Scharp is Reader in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, the Director of Arché Philosophical Research Centre, and the leader of Arché’s Research Group on conceptual engineering. He received in PhD in 2005 from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of three books with Oxford University Press and the editor of a collection with Harvard University Press. He has published numerous influential articles in the most prestigious journals of the field and is a leading figure in conceptual engineering. Dr. Scharp is the co-organizer of Arché’s seminar on conceptual engineering.
Summary
This book develops novel connections between conceptual engineering and a variety of fields and methods in analytic philosophy. Conceptual engineering is an exciting new movement in contemporary analytic philosophy that focuses on assessing and improving our concepts. In less than a decade, it has successfully spanned across the whole discipline. Based on lectures by leading philosophers at the Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar 2020/2022, this volume offers new perspectives on this wide array of topics and connects them to case studies of high philosophical, scientific, or social/political significance. This book is a must-read for professional philosophers, experts in metaphilosophy or those interested in applying the methods of conceptual engineering to issues in their own areas of specialization. It is also of great interest to philosophy students, eager to get acquainted with the most exciting and dynamic methodological developments of their discipline.
