Tag: conceptual-engineering
Reclaiming Slurs through Conceptual Engineering
Introduction Ideology can leave us “stuck in a cage, imprisoned among all sorts of terrible concepts.”[1] Slurs are linked to an especially harmful kind of concept. Successfully reclaiming slur terms requires understanding and rejecting these concepts. Linguistic reclamation of slur terms, when combined with critique of the underlying concept, can put an oppressive weapon out…
The Conceptual Engineering of Mental Illness
Should we change the mental illness concept?