Introduction to the Special Issue: Conceptual Engineering – Foundations and Applications

Andow J. (2020a), “Conceptual Engineering Is Extremely Unlikely to Work. So What?” Inquiry 64(1–2), 212–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1850343

Andow J. (2020b), “Fully Experimental Conceptual Engineering,” Inquiry 63(7), 793–814. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1691683

Belleri D. (2025), “‘You’re Changing the Subject’: An Unfair Objection to Conceptual Engineering?” The Philosophical Quarterly 75(3), 858–877. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae031

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Cantalamessa E. A. (2019), “Disability Studies, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Activism,” Inquiry 64(1–2), 46–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1658630

Cappelen H. (2018), Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814719.001.0001

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Isaac M. G. (2020), “How to Conceptually Engineer Conceptual Engineering?” Inquiry, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1719881

Isaac M. G. (2025), “The Hallmark Problem for Conceptual Engineering,” Metaphilosophy, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.70008

Isaac M. G., Koch S., and Nefdt R. (2022), “Conceptual Engineering: A Road Map to Practice,” Philosophy Compass 17(10), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12879

Jorem S. and Löhr G. (2022), “Inferentialist Conceptual Engineering,” Inquiry 65(7), 1079–1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1773160

Koch S. (2021), “Engineering What? On Concepts in Conceptual Engineering,” Synthese 199(1–2), 1955–1975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02868-w

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Landes E. (2025), “Conceptual Engineering Should be Empirical,” Erkenntnis, 1–21.

Landes E. and Reuter K. (2025), “Conceptual Revision in Action,” Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00769-w

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Misak C. (2024), “A New History and Underpinning for Conceptual Engineering,” Inquiry 67(3), 824–839. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.2021982

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Nado J. (2021), “Conceptual Engineering via Experimental Philosophy,” Inquiry 64(1–2), 76–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1667870

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Napolitano M. G. and Reuter K. (2023), “What is a Conspiracy Theory?” Erkenntnis 88, 2035–2062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00441-6

Neufeld E. (2024), “Engineering Social Concepts: Feasibility and Causal Models,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109, 819–837. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.13064

Pinder M. (2020), “On Strawson’s Critique of Explication as a Method in Philosophy,” Synthese 197(3), 955–981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1614-6

Pinder M. (2021), “Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Ethics, and Speaker Meaning,” Synthese 199, 7253–7272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03124-8

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Podosky P. M. C. (2022), “Can Conceptual Engineering Actually Promote Social Justice?” Synthese 200, 160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03469-5

Queloz M. (2021), The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse- Engineering, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868705.001.0001

Reuter K. and Baumgartner L. (2025), Conspiracy Theories are not Theories: Time to Rename Conspiracy Theories, [in:] New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering, M. G. Isaac, K. Scharp, and S. Koch (eds.), Cham: Springer.

Sawyer S. (2020), Talk and Thought, [in:] Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, A. Burgess, H. Cappelen, and D. Plunkett (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801856.003.0018

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Sękowski K. (2024), “Conceptual Engineering in the Lvov-Warsaw School,” Inquiry, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2024.2399265

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Thomasson A. L. (2021), “Conceptual Engineering: When do We Need It? How Can We Do It?” Inquiry 64(1–2), 133–154. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.2000118

Thomasson A. L. (2025), Rethinking Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197787830.001.0001

Westerblad O. (2024), “Deweyan Conceptual Engineering: Reconstruction, Concepts, and Philosophical Inquiry,” Inquiry 67(3), 985–1008. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2022.2118163