Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering

The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Meaning Production
Suppose you could change people’s way of thinking about the world at its very roots, by changing the very concepts by means of which they think. Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering is a comprehensive and systematic study of the nature and normativity of conceptual engineering.
Suppose you could change people’s way of thinking about the world at its very roots, by changing the very concepts by means of which they think. Suppose, further, that this would make the world a better place; that would be quite something. Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering is a comprehensive and systematic study of the nature and normativity of conceptual engineering. This book comprehensively deals with all the central questions in the field: the very possibility of conceptual engineering, its success conditions, the epistemic and moral permissibility of conceptual engineering, the nature of concept