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*Password: ACEW20* Abstract. 鈥� Conceptual engineering is the study of how to evaluate and change our concepts, meanings, words, and other representational devices. Experimental philosophy is the use of scientific techniques to collect data on human reactions to central examples in philosophy. One familiar project in conceptual engineering is to address the defects in our…

Abstract. 鈥� Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning 鈥� that an expression鈥檚 truth conditions are essential to it 鈥� suggests so. I present an alternative. The novel usages philosophers propose have analogues in ordinary discourse that figure in a family of puzzles about diachronic…

*Password: ACEW20* Abstract. 鈥� In this talk I present a new challenge to explication, as a method for importing lay concepts into science. To illustrate this new challenge, I focus on the concept of innateness.