Title | : | Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics |
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Author | : | Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen & David Plunkett |
Release | : | 2020-01-09 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Reference, Words & Language, Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, Epistemology |
Size | : | 3740886 |
Conceptual engineering is a newly flourishing branch of philosophy which investigates problems with our concepts and considers how they might be ameliorated: 'truth', for instance, is susceptible to paradox, and it's not clear what 'race' stands for. This is the first collective exploration of possibilities and problems of conceptual engineering. |