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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Simon Blackburn (Cambridge): TBA

30th March 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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ABSTRACT. — When I hit upon the term ‘conceptual engineering’ in the Introduction to my book Think, I suppose I thought of it as simply a cute way of introducing what philosophers do. I had no idea that the term had already been used, although I have subsequently learned that it was. I have therefore been surprised that books and seminars have subsequently been devoted to the idea: it is as if books and seminars were simply entitled ‘Philosophy’ rather than directed at particular problems within philosophy. In my talk I hope to go further into that and try to understand why it happened.

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Date:
30th March 2021
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Venue

A virtual seminar by Zoom
The University
St Andrews, KY16 9L United Kingdom
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