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Travelling Concepts and Conceptual Engineering

07 mar 2025 14:00 - 14:40
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New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Martin Stokhof, Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Jin Yuelin professor of logic at Tsinghua University in Beijing / Paris IAS Fellow.

The "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series features short and stimulating presentations from fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, marking the beginning of 1-month writing residencies.

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Many concepts are “travelling concepts”: they are used in both everyday as well as specialised contexts (education, science, law, politics, …). This applies to core cognitive concepts (meaning, understanding, knowledge, truth, justification), but also to normative concepts (agency, free will, responsibility). In different contexts the application criteria of such concepts change in often subtle but nevertheless crucial ways. The basic idea of conceptual engineering is that traditional conceptual analysis should not be the only concern of philosophy. Analysis can, and should be, complemented with the task of “engineering” better concepts. The paper will explore tensions between the “travelling concepts” perspective on the nature of concepts and the enterprise of conceptual engineering, using current debates around generative AI as a testing ground.

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07 March 2025, 14:00 - 14:40
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Travelling Concepts and Conceptual Engineering
01 March 2025 - 31 March 2025
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07 Mar 2025 14:40
Martin Stokhof
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