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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill/58�Թ�): “On a proposed counter-example to Hume’s Law based on Ought Implies Can”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. — This paper looks at a potential counter-example to Hume’s Law based on the principle that Ought implies Can and especially evaluates (and rejects) a conventionalist view according to which there are oughts that imply can\, and oughts that don’t\, and this makes the question of whether or not Ought implies Can essentially conventional and up to us to decide as we like. \n 
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LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200609T150000
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DTSTAMP:20200610T000154Z
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Elizabeth Cantalamessa (Miami): “Art as conceptual engineering”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. — In this talk I argue that our engagement in debates about art can be fruitfully understood along the same lines as debates in conceptual engineering. Proposals in conceptual engineering are not to be evaluated on the basis of their ability to track empirical essences but on the basis of a concept’s epistemic\, pragmatic\, or political merits. In the same way\, we should view membership in the category ‘work of art’ as well as subcategories such as ‘folk art’ and ‘sculpture’ not as a fact to be discovered but a decision to be made. I flesh out this core idea by describing a normativist account of aesthetic terms\, according to which our terms do not function to “pick out” properties in the world but enable speakers to convey\, endorse\, and negotiate semantic and behavioral norms. I conclude by showing how this parallel understanding of art and conceptual engineering sheds light on more general issues for conceptual engineers\, such as the role of power in the legitimization of new concepts and philosophical questions.
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-elizabeth-cantalamessa-miami-art-as-conceptual-engineering/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200616T150000
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Édouard Machery (Pittsburgh): “A new challenge to explication”
DESCRIPTION:*Password: ACEW20* \nAbstract. — In this talk I present a new challenge to explication\, as a method for importing lay concepts into science. To illustrate this new challenge\, I focus on the concept of innateness.
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-edouard-machery-pittsburgh/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200623T150000
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Allison Koslow (MIT). “Going on in the same way”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. — Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning — that an expression’s truth conditions are essential to it — suggests so. I present an alternative. The novel usages philosophers propose have analogues in ordinary discourse that figure in a family of puzzles about diachronic synonymy. The main obstacle to continuity of subject appears to be a kind of contingency in how we go on with a term. So\, for instance\, it might seem that if we could have properly withheld “phone” from cellphones when first invented\, “phone” has since changed its meaning. I argue that\, seen aright\, there is more than one way to go on in the same way. The meaning of\, say\, “phone” or “woman”\, does not settle how to go on\, because there is no absolute fact of the matter about what that meaning is. But\, whichever way we go on\, in hindsight\, will be going on in the same way. This talk defends the view that intensions are projected\, a version of semantic relativism. Tune in.
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-allison-koslow-mit/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200630T150000
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Kevin Scharp (58�Թ�): “Conceptual engineering and experimental philosophy join forces to help in replacing Truth”
DESCRIPTION:*Password: ACEW20* \nAbstract. — Conceptual engineering is the study of how to evaluate and change our concepts\, meanings\, words\, and other representational devices. Experimental philosophy is the use of scientific techniques to collect data on human reactions to central examples in philosophy. One familiar project in conceptual engineering is to address the defects in our concept of truth that cause the liar and other paradoxes by replacing our concept of truth (for certain purposes) with one or more new concepts. I outline a systematic way of identifying potential replacement concepts by using techniques from artificial intelligence. And I introduce a program of experimental philosophy studies to help evaluate which of those potential replacement concepts would be best. The idea is to break down a set of about 50 principles involving truth into the minimal inconsistent subsets and maximal consistent subsets. Then use experimental philosophy to evaluate reactions to each principle. We can use these reactions to measure the plausibility of the replacements because each maximal consistent subset corresponds to a potential replacement concept. Together\, conceptual engineering and experimental philosophy can identify the most plausible or highest credence principles involved in a defective concept and measure the overall plausibility of each potential replacement concept by the plausibility of the principles built into it.
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-manuel-gustavo-isaac-snsf-st-andrews/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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