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 …

Conceptual engineering is to be explained by appeal to the externalist distinction between
concepts and conceptions. If concepts are determined by non-conceptual relations to …

Conceptual engineers have recently turned to the notion of conceptual functions to do a
variety of explanatory work. Functions are supposed to explain what speakers are debating …

In this paper, we first briefly survey the main responses to the challenge that experimental
philosophy poses to the method of cases, given the common assumption that the latter is …

Many theorists of conceptual engineering appeal to the functions, roles, purposes or aims of
concepts to articulate how conceptual engineering ought to be done. The functional …

Supporters of conceptual engineering often use Haslanger's ameliorative project as a key
example of their methodology. However, at face value, Haslanger's project is no cause for …

The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language Page 1 THE
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE This …

This paper argues for the value of distinguishing two projects concerning our normative and
evaluative thought and talk, which we dub “metanormative inquiry” and “the conceptual …

One important activity in conceptual ethics and conceptual engineering involves proposing
to associate a new semantics with an existing word. Many philosophers think that one …

In this paper, I argue that an adequate meta-semantic framework capable of accommodating
the range of projects currently identified as projects in conceptual engineering must be …