Issues
in
Conceptual
Ethics
and Conceptual Engineering
Program
9:30-11:00. Kevin Toh (University College London): "Scrutability and control in meaning engineering
11:00-11:30. Coffee break
11:30-13:00. Ásta (San Francisco State University): “Fixing language and fixing reality: The woman question in feminist theory”
13:00-15:00. Lunch at Mama Café
15:00-16:00. Steffen Koch (Ruhr University Bochum): “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”
16:00-16:15. Short break
16:15-17:15. Nat Hansen (Reading University): “Metalinguistic proposals”
17:15-17:30. Coffee break
17:30-18:30. Elisabetta Cantalamessa (University of Miami) and Jared Riggs (University of Toronto): “An inferentialist approach to conceptual engineering”
20:00. Dinner at En Ville
9:30-11:00. Robin O. Andreasen (University of Delaware): “Conceptual fragmentation and the use of ‘race’ in scientific theorizing”
11:00-11:30. Coffee break
11:30-13:00. James Hampton (City University of London): “What do people feel about the concepts they use?”
13:00-15:00. Lunch at Mama Café
15:00-16:00. Eleonore Neufeld (University of Southern California): “Pornography and dehumanization: The essentialist dimension”
16:00-16:15. Short break
16:15-17:15. Inga Bones (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): “Engineering ‘hate speech’”
17:15-17:30. Coffee break
17:30-18:30. Carlos Santana (University of Utah): “Are housecats and pigeons ‘native species’ in the urban ecosystem: Re-engineering scientific concepts to deal with global change”