Conceptual Engineering: Feasibility & Normativity

e-Workshop # Bielefeld, March 10th to 12th 2021. Organized by Steffen Koch & Christian Nimtz.

This e-worskhop will be run via ZOOM.

If you want to participate, you need to register.

For registration, send an e-mail to registration[at]nimtz.net, Please do so before March 7th. Later registration should be possible.

Please find a schedule of the event and the abstracts to the talks here .

Here is a shortlink for this page: bit.ly/3s57XW9

Wednesday March 10th

18:00 - 20:00

Katherine Richie
(UC Irvine)

Essentializing Language and the Prospects for Ameliorative Projects

Thursday March 11th

09:00 - 10:30	Max Deutsch & Jamin Asay (University of Hong Kong)	Eliminativism and Inconsistent Concepts
10:30 - 10:45	coffee break
10:45 - 12:15	Steffen Koch (Ruhr-University Bochum)	How Words matter. Conceptual Engineering meets Psycholinguistics.
12:15 - 13:30	lunch break
13:30 - 15:00	Jennifer Nado (University of Hong Kong)	Intuition's Role on Conceptual Engineering
15:00 - 17:00	hangout

Friday March 12th

09:00 - 10:30	Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld University)	Engineering Concepts by Engineering Social Norms: Solving the Implementation Problem
10:30 - 10:45	coffee break
10:45 - 12:15	Mona Simion (University of Glasgow)	The Ethics and Epistemology of Meaning Production
12:15 - 13:30	lunch break
13:30 - 15:00	Matti Eklund (Uppsala University)	Conceptual Engineering: A Partial Defense