Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational
devices) can be defective, and how they can be improved. In all parts of philosophy there …

Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing
representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the …

Feminism is said to be the movement to end women's oppression (hooks 2000, 26). One
possible way to understand 'woman'in this claim is to take it as a sex term:'woman'picks out …

This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It
asks: what makes oppression, discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single …

Philosophical theories of gender are typically understood as theories of what it is to be a
woman, a man, a nonbinary person, and so on. In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake …

This book offers a historical exploration of the genesis of feminist economics and gender
economics, as well as their theoretical and methodological differences. Its narrative also …

A distinction often drawn is one between conservative versus revisionary conceptions of
philosophical analysis with respect to commonsensical beliefs and intuitions. This paper …

What is the relationship between conceptual engineering and metasemantic externalism?
Sally Haslanger has argued that metasemantic externalism justifies the seemingly …

Conceptual engineers aim to revise rather than describe our concepts. But what are
concepts? And how does one engineer them? Answering these questions is of central …

Unlike conceptual analysis, conceptual engineering does not aim to identify the content that
our current concepts do have, but the content which these concepts should have. For this …