Teaching Guide on Conceptual Engineering

For general introductory texts on Conceptual Engineering:

Cappelen, Herman and Plunkett, David: A Guided tour Of Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, in Burgess, Cappelen, and Plunkett eds, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, OUP, available here.

Cappelen, Herman: Fixing Language, OUP 2018

Burgess, Alexis, and Plunkett, David: Conceptual Ethics I and II, Philosophy Compass, 2013, 8:12, 1091-1011 and 1102-1110. Available here and here.

Chalmers, David: Verbal Disputes, Philosophical Review, 2011, 120 (4):515-566. Available here.

Eklund, Matti: Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Fixed Points, in Daly ed, The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods, available here.

Haslanger, Sally: Introduction to Resisting Reality (OUP 2012)

 

For critical literature

 

Greenough, Patrick: Neutralism and Conceptual Engineering, in Burgess, Cappelen, and Plunkett, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, OUP, available here.

 

Ball, Derek: Could Women Be Analytically Oppressed?  in Burgess, Cappelen, and Plunkett eds, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, OUP, available here.

 

Carnap and Strawson on Explication

 

Carnap, Rudolf: On Explication, pp. 1-18 of Logical Foundations of Probability, 1950, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Strawson, Peter F: Carnap’s Views on Conceptual Systems versus Natural Languages ​​in Analytic Philosophy, Paul Arthur Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap. Open Court: La Salle. pp. 503–518, 1963.

 

Carnap, Rudolf: P.F. Strawson on linguistic naturalism, Paul Arthur Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap. La Salle, IL: Open Court. pp. 933-940, 1963.

 

Applications

Scharp, Kevin: Replacing Truth, OUP 2013, Replacing Truth, Inquiry 50, pp. 606-21, 2007

Eklund, Matti: Replacing Truth?, in Burgess and Sherman (eds), Metasemantics, OUP 2014, available here.

Haslanger, Sally: the papers collected in Resisting Reality.