My favorite notion of the week: complaining this morning about grifters “doing violence to concepts.” How evocative! He meant it negatively, but ofc sometimes concepts must be violently recast!
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When is it best to “do violence to concepts” vs. defining new concepts? I guess that’s one of the core tactical question of culture wars?
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There's a decent amount written about this in philosophy's conceptual engineering / conceptual amelioration literature.
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"Conceptual engineering"!!! Do you have any recommended references?
I think dartmouth.edu/~plunkett/guid and academia.edu/38528165/Conce are reasonable overviews. Sally Haslanger's "Gender and Race" (library.pcw.gov.ph/sites/default/) is my favorite example of the activity itself.
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