Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, geo-engineering, social media, or
next-generation genomics have been and will continue to be socially (culturally …

Conceptual Engineering (CE) is thought to be generally aimed at ameliorating deficient
concepts. In this paper, we challenge this assumption: we argue that CE is frequently …

New technologies have the potential to severely “challenge” or “disrupt” not only our
established social practices but our most fundamental concepts and distinctions like person …

This paper addresses several foundational questions in conceptual engineering: When is
conceptual engineering needed? When we engage in conceptual engineering, should we …

This paper is about conceptual engineering (CE). Specifically, it discusses a common
objection to CE, which I call the Discontinuity Objection. According to the Discontinuity …

If you are asked whether technology influences human behaviour, do not hasten to answer
in the affirmative. You may be accused of being determinist, and you could attract a swarm of …

More than two decades of sensemaking research has brought thorough knowledge of how
people understand organisational phenomena and attach meaning to them. This stream of …

Conceptual engineers aim to revise rather than describe our concepts. But what are
concepts? And how does one engineer them? Answering these questions is of central …

Scholarly discourse on “disruptive technologies” has been strongly influenced by disruptive
innovation theory. This theory is tailored for analyzing disruptions in markets and business. It …

After several technological revolutions in which technologies became ever more present in
our daily lives, the digital technologies that are currently being developed are actually fading …