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Conceptual Spaces for Conceptual Engineering? Feminism as a Case Study
Recently, there has been much research into conceptual engineering in connection with feminist inquiry and activism, most notably involving gender...
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The power of social norms: Why conceptual engineers should care about implementation
Jennifer Nado has recently argued that conceptual engineers should focus on (re-)designing representations and may safely ignore issues of...
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Conceptual Knowing-How-Based Theoretical Wisdom
Philosophy is typically described as a pursuit of wisdom. However, many philosophers maintain that only one type of wisdom exists—practical wisdom....
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Conceptual Structuralism
This paper defends a conceptualistic version of structuralism as the most convincing way of elaborating a philosophical understanding of...
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Does Scientific Conceptual Analysis Provide Better Justification than Armchair Conceptual Analysis?
The present paper is concerned with the question of whether scientific conceptual analysis provides better justification than armchair conceptual...
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Map** trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model
The organ donation and transplantation (ODT) system heavily relies on the willingness of individuals to donate their organs. While it is widely...
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A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy
In this article, we propose a philosophical exploration on the main problems involved in two neurorights that concern autonomous action, namely free...
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Conceptual domination
Implicit in much of the recent literature on conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics is the assumption that when speakers argue that we should...
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Conceptual (and Hence Mathematical) Explanation, Conceptual Grounding and Proof
This paper studies the notions of conceptual grounding and conceptual explanation (which includes the notion of mathematical explanation), with an...
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Making Trust Safe for AI? Non-agential Trust as a Conceptual Engineering Problem
Should we be worried that the concept of trust is increasingly used when we assess non-human agents and artefacts, say robots and AI systems? Whilst...
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Metaphor as a “Matter of Thought”: Conceptual Metaphor Theory
In this chapter we address Lakoff and Johnson’s (J Philos 77(8):453–486, 1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which, building on the earlier...
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A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms
The aim of this paper is to propose a qualitative approach to the theory of conceptual spaces, in contrast to the usual metric framework. This...
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Empirical Conceptual Analysis: An Exposition
Conceptual analysis as traditionally understood can be improved by allowing the use of a certain kind of empirical investigation. The conceptual...
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Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism
Mark Wilson presents a highly original account of conceptual behavior that challenges many received views about concepts in analytic philosophy. Few...
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Answering the conceptual challenge: three strategies for deflationists
We defend deflationism about truth against a pressing challenge, which is to explain how deflationists can understand the role that the concept of...
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Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda
In the 1960s, influential thinkers defined design as a rational problem-solving approach to deal with the challenges of sustainable human...
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Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’
Meaningful work is an important ideal, but it seems hard to give an adequate account of meaningful work. In this article, I conduct a revisionary...
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Conceptual Learning and Local Incommensurability: A Dynamic Logic Approach
In recent decades, the logical study of rational belief dynamics has played an increasingly important role in philosophy. However, the dynamics of...
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Experimental Explications for Conceptual Engineering
This paper argues for two conclusions: (1) evaluating the success of engineered concepts necessarily involves empirical work; and (2) the Carnapian...
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The Interplay of Linguistic, Conceptual and Encyclopedic Knowledge in Meaning Production and Comprehension
One of the most complicated issues of present-day linguistics is the relationship of three types of knowledge: linguistic knowledge, conceptual...