{"id":3189,"date":"2020-05-28T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/conceptual-engineering-seminar-elizabeth-cantalamessa-miami-art-as-conceptual-engineering\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:01:54","slug":"conceptual-engineering-seminar-elizabeth-cantalamessa-miami-art-as-conceptual-engineering","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/conceptual-engineering-seminar-elizabeth-cantalamessa-miami-art-as-conceptual-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Engineering Seminar |\u00a0Elizabeth Cantalamessa (Miami): &#8220;Art as conceptual engineering&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract. \u2014 <\/strong>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\u2019s epistemic, pragmatic, or political merits. In the same way, we should view membership in the category \u2018work of art\u2019 as well as subcategories such as \u2018folk art\u2019 and \u2018sculpture\u2019 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 \u201cpick out\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract. \u2014 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[8],"class_list":["post-3189","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-conceptual-engineering-seminar","cat_conceptual-engineering-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3189\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}