Conceptual Engineering Workshop

Workshop Agenda

Welcome, Coffee, Pastries (8:30 – 9:00 am)

Conceptual Engineering and the Philosophy of Language (9:00 – 11:00 am)

• John Bunke (Toronto): ‘In What Sense are Some Concepts “Better” Than Others?’
• Nate Charlow (Toronto): ‘Metasemantic Quandaries’
• Tim Sundell (Auburn): ‘What the Disagreement’s About’

Conceptual Engineering, Pragmatism, Rationalism (11:20 am – 12:40 pm)

• Steven Methven (Oxford) and Cheryl Misak (Toronto): ‘Pragmatist Historical Precedents for Conceptual Engineering’
• Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto): ‘Rationalist Foundations for Conceptual Inquiry’ 

Lunch (12:40 – 2:00 pm)

Conceptual Engineering and Semantic Externalism (2:00- 5:40)

• Derek Ball (St. Andrews):  ‘Revisionary Analysis without Conceptual Change’
• Henry Jackman (York): ‘Externalism, Underdetermination and Engineering’
• Joey Pollock (Edinburgh): ‘Radical Holism and Conceptual Engineering’

Break (4:00 pm – 4:20 pm)

Conceptual Engineering and Semantic Externalism cont’d (4:20 – 5:40 pm)

• Jared Riggs (Toronto): ‘Conceptual Engineers Shouldn’t Worry about Semantic Externalism’
• Herman Cappelen (Oslo): ‘Conceptual Engineering Externalized: Inscrutability, Lack of Control, and Anti-Luminosity’

Participant-at-large 

• Andrew Sepielli (Toronto)