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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/tba-7/
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering as a response to Negative Experimental Philo
 sophy
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Conceptual engineering is an increasingly popular phi
 losophical program that offers an alternative to the traditional view of p
 hilosophy as centered on conceptual analysis. Rather than aiming to descri
 be our current concepts\, conceptual engineers aim to improve those concep
 ts in order to better suit our aims and purposes. While there is now a wea
 lth of literature on the nature and benefits of conceptual engineering\, t
 here is surprisingly little work connecting conceptual engineering to the 
 other major movement in recent metaphilosophical debate – experimental p
 hilosophy. In this talk\, I’ll argue that the adoption of conceptual eng
 ineering as a core philosophical method provides a promising reply to the 
 methodological criticisms pressed by ‘negative’ experimental philosoph
 ers. Conceptual engineering fundamentally involves a license to reject cur
 rent classificatory judgments\; it allows pragmatic reasoning to trump our
  immediate judgments on philosophical cases. As such\, it reduces reliance
  on the sorts of ‘intuitive’ mental states that negative experimentali
 sts criticize. The adoption of conceptual engineering will not fully elimi
 nate reliance on ‘intuitive’ judgment - no methodology possibly could\
 , nor would it be desirable to do so. However\, I’ll argue that the judg
 ments that are most likely to be dismissed during a conceptual engineering
  exercise are exactly those that experimental findings suggest to be the m
 ost epistemically defective.
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia (UB\, Faculty of Philosophy\, 4th floor)
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