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This book explores innovative applications of conceptual engineering to specific case studies beyond philosophy. Conceptual engineering is described a method for reframing philosophy as a problem-solving method of direct relevance for, and bearing on, areas of practical concern. Based on lectures at the Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar 2020/2022 by leading philosophers, it opens new perspectives on a wide array of topics in relation to issues of high scientific, social, and 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 (Manuel Gustavo Isaac, Steffen Koch, & Kevin Scharp).- 1 How language teaches and misleads: Coronavirus and social distancing as case studies (Ethan Landes).- 2 Psychiatric kinds and the DSM: Notes from a conceptual building site (Rachel Cooper).- 3 Conceptual engineering of medical concepts (Elisabetta Lalumera).- 4 Rethinking the ocean: Conceptual engineering for the next 10000 years (Roberto Casati, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Emilie Flamme, Alberto Gallace, Quentin Hiernaux, Stefano Malatesta, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Enrico Squarcina, Colomban de Vargas, Eva Wanek).- 5 Conceptual engineering, semantic tolerance, and flexibility (Genoveva Martí & Lorena Ludeña-Ramírez).- 6 Labeling unlabeled identities (Katherine Ritchie).- 7 Conspiracy theories are not theories: Time to rename conspiracy theories (Kevin Reuter & Lucien Baumgartner).
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 explores innovative applications of conceptual engineering to specific case studies beyond philosophy. Conceptual engineering is described a method for reframing philosophy as a problem-solving method of direct relevance for, and bearing on, areas of practical concern. Based on lectures at the Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar 2020/2022 by leading philosophers, it opens new perspectives on a wide array of topics in relation to issues of high scientific, social, and 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.
