A philosopher argues that state-sponsored cyberattacks against central military or civilian
targets are always acts of war. What is this philosopher doing? According to conceptual …

Politicians and engineers are increasingly realizing that values are important in the
development of technological artefacts. What is often overlooked is that different …

Conceptual engineering is thought to face an 'implementation challenge': the challenge of
securing uptake of engineered concepts. But is the fact that implementation is challenging …

Is conceptual engineering feasible? Answering that question requires a theory of semantic
change, which is sometimes thought elusive. Fortunately, much is known about semantic …

The advent of intelligent artificial systems has sparked a dispute about the question of who is
responsible when such a system causes a harmful outcome. This paper champions the idea …

In this paper, I identify a central problem for conceptual engineering: the problem of showing
concept-users why they should recognize the authority of the concepts advocated by …

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 …

Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our concepts. However,
little has been written about how best to conceive of concepts for the purposes of conceptual …

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 …