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Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Sally Haslanger (MIT): “Conceptual amelioration and social coordination”

15th September 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

笔补辫别谤:听Haslanger (2020), “How Not to Change the Subject”

Abstract. 鈥� Concepts are not only useful for enabling individuals to have attitudes – perception, cognition, conation, emotion – but for groups to coordinate聽with each other.聽 If we take seriously the coordinating function of concepts, then although in some cases it is important that concepts connect us to a particular category or kind (water, gold, tiger), other times what’s important is how and whether they enable us to fluently coordinate (family, gender, democracy).聽 I will argue that, as a result, when circumstances change and fluency is disrupted, sometimes concepts should evolve to reorient us effectively, rather聽than remain rigidly fixed on a particular part of the world (or region of worlds).

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