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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth): “How should we think about linguistic function?”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. — Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards for evaluating and constructing concepts\, according to how well they fulfill their functions\, and whether those functions are desirable. However\, there has also been a great deal of skepticism about the idea that words or concepts have identifiable functions. Herman Cappelen has gone so far as to argue that the only functions one can identify are ‘disquotationally’ specified: that the function of the concept F is to pick out the Fs. We can\, however\, turn to work in empirical linguistics for help in understanding and identifying linguistic functions. I will argue that work in Systemic Functional Linguistics sheds new light on how we should think about function in language\, what the functions of certain philosophically interesting terms are\, and why the thought that linguistic functions can only be specified disquotationally would lead us badly astray. \n\nZoom meeting ID: 857 3025 53 80\nZoom password: ACEW20 (Invite link)
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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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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Hans-Johann Glock (Zurich): “Conceptual engineering and conceptual analysis: Some conceptual connections”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. — Conceptual engineering is often presented as radically opposed and as superseding conceptual analysis. Prima facie\, however\, improving conceptual schemes in a controlled and fruitful way presupposes an understanding of the conceptual status quo. Consequently the condemnation of conceptual analysis by conceptual engineers constitutes a paradox that needs to be taken far more seriously than has been the case. One reason why the paradox has escaped notice is even more paradoxical: leading conceptual engineers like Cappelen do not believe in the existence of concepts\, let alone in the possibility of changing them. By employing the tools of conceptual analysis\, this article will show that this is not a tenable position. At the minimum\, the projects trading under the name of conceptual engineering must aim at improving the way we categorize and reason about phenomena\, rather than altering our specific beliefs and theories (as in scientific theory-formation). And this presupposes a semantic self-understanding of the kind provided by a conceptual analysis that is both connective and impure: it elucidates concepts not in isolation\, but through their interconnections and their applications outside of philosophy.  My arguments for this conclusion will rely on a loosely speaking pragmatist semantics. Yet this does not constitute a petitio principii\, since that semantics captures the established notions of meaning and understanding that are presupposed even in semantic revisionism. \n\nZoom meeting ID: 857 3025 53 80\nZoom password: ACEW20 (Invite link)
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LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Manuel Gustavo Isaac (SNSF/58�Թ�): “Reshaping the world: An empirical method for applied conceptual engineering”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract. — Conceptual engineering is a groundbreaking programme in philosophy that focuses on how to best assess and improve our concepts. Yet\, it still lacks an operational framework in order for its case studies to be run effectively. And without such implementation strategy\, it will never live up to its proclaimed ambitions: Changing people’s minds and the narratives that shape our world so as to make tangible differences in the face of the big issues of our times. The rationale for the EMFACE Project is to overcome this applied knowledge gap. Its overall goal is to make conceptual engineering an effective tool to achieve real-world changes with measurable impact. This talk outlines the EMFACE Project with a focus on its theoretical and applied objectives. \n\nZoom meeting ID: 857 3025 53 80\nZoom password: ACEW20 (Invite link)
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LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58�Թ�\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
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