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Paul Podosky, "What attitude should we take to conceptual engineering?"
Wednesday 21 Sept 2022 ⋅ 15:30 – 17:00
Eastern Australia Time - Sydney



Philosophy Seminar RoomSimulcast via  
Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87937027507Abstract:A split is made  
between cautious pessimists and cautious optimists in  
conceptual engineering. Where the former worries that concepts are hard to  
engineer because they are, in a very strong sense, “out of our control,”  
the latter accepts that control is possible but still very hard. However,  
this doesn’t exhaust the space of possible attitudes. In this paper, I show  
that when we attend closely to the conditions of our conceptual  
environment, we will see that the burden of implementation cannot be placed  
on the shoulders of individuals. But nor can we rely on existing social  
infrastructure to get our concepts to stick. Thus, when it comes to the  
normativity of conceptual engineering, our attention is perhaps better  
focused on cultivating the right conditions for conceptual uptake, rather  
than taking our chances on a world designed to keep things conceptually as  
they are. That is, conceptual engineering faces a pre-implementation  
challenge. Recognising this challenge allows us to be pessimistic  
optimists. We can be sceptical about the feasibility of conceptual  
engineering in the present, but hopeful about it in the future – provided  
that we get our conceptual environment right.

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