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FCE Conference // Herman Cappelen, "Conceptual Engineering vs Conceptual Activism"

The Foundations of Conceptual Engineering Conference Generous support provided by New York University's New York Institute of Philosophy and by University of Oslo's Project ConceptLab. Prof. Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo) “Conceptual Engineering vs Conceptual Activism: Why Conceptual Change Is Incomprehensible and Uncontrollable” Abstract: Conceptual engineering is the activity of assessing and improving our concepts (and other representational devices). Once you’ve identified a conceptual defect, you move to the constructive phase of ameliorating. Once you’ve got a proposed improvement in place, you might want to develop strategies for actually implementing that improvement. This last stage I call ‘conceptual activism’ and I argue it’s not within the remit of philosophy, the mechanisms are incomprehensible, and not within our control.