ABSTRACT

The classic programme of conceptual engineering (Cappelen, Herman. 2018. Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Eklund, Matti. 2021. “Conceptual Engineering.” In The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language, edited by Justin Khoo, and Rachel Sterken, 15–30. London: Routledge) envisages a two-stage ameliorating process. First, we assess ‘F’ and determine what the term should express. Second, we bring it about that ‘F’ expresses what it should express. The second stage gives rise to a practical challenge: the implementation challenge. Engineering advocates need to explain by what means they can implement specific conceptual changes in the natural language shared by a community – a feat Herman Cappelen (2018. Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; “Conceptual Engineering: The Master Argument.” In Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, edited by Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen, and David Plunkett, 132–151. Oxford: Oxford University Press) argues to be beyond our understanding and control both on an externalist and on an internalist meta-semantics. I devise a new answer to the implementation challenge. Enlisting the influential theory of social norms by Cristina Bicchieri, I argue that engineering social norms in Bicchieri's technical sense amounts to an effective, specific, and feasible means to implement specific conceptual change, at least on internalist premises. I also argue that Bicchieri's social norms are an essential addition to the more familiar conventions and moral norms when it comes to conceptual engineering.

摘要

概念工程的经典课程（Cappelen, Herman. 2018. Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering . Oxford: Oxford University Press; Eklund, Matti. 2021. “Conceptual Engineering.” In The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language.，由 Justin Khoo 和 Rachel Sterken 编辑，15-30。伦敦：Routledge）设想了一个两阶段的改善过程。首先，我们评估“ F ”并确定该术语应该表达什么。其次，我们带来了' F' 表达了它应该表达的内容。第二阶段带来了实际挑战：实施挑战。工程倡导者需要解释他们可以通过什么方式在社区共享的自然语言中实现特定的概念变化——一项壮举 Herman Cappelen (2018. Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020;“Conceptual Engineering ：主论点。”在概念工程和概念伦理学中，由 Alexis Burgess、Herman Cappelen 和 David Plunkett 编辑，132-151。牛津：牛津大学出版社）认为，对于外部元语义和内部元语义都超出了我们的理解和控制。我为实施挑战设计了一个新的答案。我引用了 Cristina Bicchieri 有影响力的社会规范理论，我认为 Bicchieri 技术意义上的工程社会规范相当于一种有效、具体和可行的手段，以实现特定的概念变革，至少在内在主义的前提下。我还认为，在概念工程方面，Bicchieri 的社会规范是对更熟悉的惯例和道德规范的重要补充。