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Broad-spectrum conceptual engineering

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Date
01/06/2021
Author
Isaac, Manuel
Keywords
Conceptual engineering
Metaphilosophy
Philosophical methods
Theories of concepts
BC Logic
P Philology. Linguistics
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Abstract
Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our representational devices. On its ‘broad-spectrum’ version, it is expected to be appropriately applicable to any of our representation-involving cognitive activities, with major consequences for our whole cognitive life. This paper is about the theoretical foundations of conceptual engineering thus characterised. With a view to ensuring the actionability of conceptual engineering as a broad-spectrum method, it addresses the issue of how best to construe the subject matter of conceptual engineering and successively defends the theses that conceptual engineering should be: (i) About concepts, (ii) psychologically theorised, (iii) as multiply realised functional kinds. Thereby, I claim to theoretically secure and justify the maximum scope, flexibility, and impact for the method of conceptual engineering on our representational devices in our whole cognitive life—in other words, a broad-spectrum version of conceptual engineering.
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Isaac , M 2021 , ' Broad-spectrum conceptual engineering ' , Ratio , vol. Early View , 12311 . https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12311
Publication
Ratio
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12311
ISSN
0034-0006
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Ratio published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Grant Number(s): P400PG_183807).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23297

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