Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Conceptual Engineering (CE)

Conceptual engineering is a new exciting movement in analytic philosophy that focuses on how to assess and improve our concepts. Philosophers have been doing this for a long time, but recent excitement is over thinking explicitly about how to best assess and improve our concept. Conceptual assessment and improvement has thus itself become a whole new research program in philosophical methodology. This Reading Group will address the main foundational issues that this program faces under the name of `conceptual engineering'.



Convenor:

Manuel Gustavo Isaac

Sessions

  • Session I: Foundational issues in conceptual engineering

    • Chalmers, David (2018). “What is conceptual engineering and what should it be?” Unpublished draft.

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    • Floridi, Luciano (2011). “A defence of constructionism: Philosophy as conceptual engineering”. Metaphilosophy 42.3, 282–304.

     

    The first session of the Reading Group on conceptual engineering will be about how to make sense of the engineering metaphor at play in the very label of `conceptual engineering'. 



    27 November 2019

    11:00, Sala Maria Zambrano