Illustrations

This chapter considers a wide range of examples of conceptual engineering, both within and outside of philosophy, and then provides a taxonomy of conceptual engineering. Section I provides a range of examples of philosophers trying to improve their representational devices, with examples from various philosophical sub-disciplines (including philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy, and ethics). Section II gives examples of conceptual engineering occurring outside philosophy, and makes connections with semantic drift and contextual negotiation. Section III provides a taxonomy for understanding conceptual engineering, laying out a series of distinctions we can use to show the commonalities and differences linking and differentiating between the examples we considered.