Conceptual engineering is extremely unlikely to work. So what?

被引：12

作者：

Andow, James ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England

来源：

INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY | 2021年 / 64卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

Conceptual engineering; conceptual control; philosophical methodology; metaphilosophy;

D O I：

10.1080/0020174X.2020.1850343

中图分类号：

B82 [伦理学（道德学）];

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摘要：

Conceptual engineering aims to improve our concepts. That's plausibly an extremely difficult thing to do. Should this make us sceptical of the idea that philosophers should try to do it? You might think so. Cappelen, in his Fixing Language: an Essay on Conceptual Engineering, thinks it shouldn't stop us - but his stated reasons are not really encouraging. In this paper, I say what I think Cappelen should have said, on the basis of a very rough cost-benefit analysis.

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