Conceptual engineering is thought to face an ‘implementation challenge’: the challenge of securing uptake of engineered concepts. But is the fact that implementation is challenging really a defect to be overcome? What kind of picture of political life would be implied by making engineering easy to implement? We contend that the ambition to obviate the implementation challenge goes against the very idea of liberal democratic politics. On the picture we draw, the implementation challenge can be overcome by institutionalizing control over conceptual uptake, and there are contexts – such as professions that depend on coordinated conceptual innovation – in which there are good reasons to institutionalize control in this fashion. But the liberal fear of this power to control conceptual uptake ending up in the wrong hands, combined with the democratic demand for freedom of thought as a precondition of genuine consent, yields a liberal democratic rationale for keeping implementation challenging.

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概念工程与实施政治

概念工程被认为面临“实施挑战”：确保采用工程概念的挑战。但是，实施具有挑战性这一事实真的是一个需要克服的缺陷吗？使工程易于实施将暗示什么样的政治生活图景？我们认为，消除实施挑战的雄心与自由民主政治的理念背道而驰。在我们绘制的图片中，实施挑战可以通过对概念吸收的制度化控制来克服，并且在某些情况下——例如依赖于协调概念创新的职业——有充分的理由以这种方式将控制制度化。但是自由主义者害怕这种控制概念吸收的权力最终落入坏人之手，