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Engineering Logical Concepts?

4th Anti-Exceptionalism Workshop: Engineering Logical Concepts?

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Conceptual engineering is the study of conceptual deficiencies andways in which these can be addressed. The workshop aims to explore whether, and if so how, this approach can and should be applied to the philosophy of logic. Questions might include the following:

  • In what ways can logical concepts be deficient? (inconsistency, conflation of concepts, disharmony, not joint-carving, unintuitive, etc)
  • In what ways can logical concepts be improved?
  • Are logical concepts like other scientific concepts with regard to the previous questions?
  • What is the philosophical status of such improvements (replacement or revision)?
  • Are logical concepts different from most other scientific concepts bybeing formal in some sense?
  • Do logical concepts play some special role in our cognitive architecture?