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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics are branches of philosophy concerned with questions about how to assess and ameliorate our representational devices (such as concepts and words). It's a part of philosophy concerned with questions about which concepts we should use (and why), how concepts can be improved, when concepts should be abandoned, and how proposals for amelioration can be implemented. Central parts of the history of philosophy have engaged with these issues, but the focus of this volume is on applications to work in contemporary philosophy of language and mind, epistemology, gender and race theory, ethics, philosophy of science, and philosophical logic. This is the first volume devoted entirely to conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics. The volume explores the possibilities, benefits, problems, and applications of conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics. It consists of twenty chapters written by leading philosophers.

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Author:   Alexis Burgess (Independent Philosopher, Independent Philosopher, Pomona College) ,  Herman Cappelen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo / University of St Andrews) ,  David Plunkett (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9780198801856

ISBN 10:   0198801858
Pages:   474
Publication Date:   23 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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. Diaz-Leon 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 Perez 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

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Alexis Burgess is an independent philosopher based in Los Angeles. Herman Cappelen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and at the University of St Andrews. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Inquiry. Cappelen works in all areas of systematic philosophy and has written, co-written, or edited more than ten books and many articles. David Plunkett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.

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