Conceptual Engineering

Conceptual engineering is a new exciting movement in analytic philosophy that focuses on how to assess and improve our concepts. Philosophers have been doing this for a long time, but recent excitement is over thinking explicitly about how to best assess and improve our concept. Conceptual assessment and improvement has thus itself become a whole new research program in philosophical methodology. This Reading Group will address the main foundational issues that this program faces under the name of `conceptual engineering'.