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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
