Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering

by Herman Cappelen

Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and how they can be improved. In all parts of philosophy there are philosophers who criticize the concepts we have and propose ways to improve them. Once one notices this about philosophy, it's easy to see that revisionist projects occur in a range of other intellectual disciplines and in ordinary life. That fact gives rise to a cluster of questions:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198814712
• ISBN13: 9780198814719
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"