Anyone around these parts know about #ConceptualEngineering and can answer a couple of questions for me?

Excited for my Xphi Blog post with Kevin Reuter:

Can Conceptual Engineers implement revised concepts? Yes!

Can we measure it? Yes!

https://xphiblog.com/empirical-data-on-the-implementation-of-engineered-concepts/

#xphi #philosophy #ConceptualEngineering #CE #psychology

"There is a time and place for a category which, despite the joints of botany, groups tomatoes with vegetables rather than fruit. The place is the kitchen, and the time is when one is making a fruit salad."
https://www.jennifernado.net/pdfs/papers/2019%20ce%20truth%20efficacy.pdf
#ConceptualEngineering

One fast way for you to lose my trust is to assert unilateral authority over the meaning of a word that affects me, such as in a private chat between you and me.

If you get to dictate what I meant by "sandwich" a minute ago just because you're a native speaker, then why won't you dictate what "part" means in our vows?

And when I tell you about a familiar threat, if you're so sure that you understand their words better than I do, then your promise of aid means little.

#ConceptualEngineering

@MartinEscardo "The issue is, what is chicken?" https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/190/116/1622834/#:~:text=The%20issue%20is%2C%20what%20is,plaintiff%20pejoratively%20terms%20%22fowl%22. #ConceptualEngineering

@ccshan @Buster

I'd like to know more about #ConceptualEngineering

So, an #Introduction.

I'm Wolfgang, a #Philosopher by training, #Facilitator by trade and late-coming social #Activist. Born and grown up in Germany, I currently live in #London where I work on #UniversalBasicIncome (#UBI) and #MovementEcology.

As a facilitator, I help people think together: build shared #MentalModels and do collective #Sensemaking.

I have been active in the #ClimateJustice movement since early 2019 and am on a political journey further left ever since.

(I'm increasingly sceptical of the left/right framing, though, and for a very #Leftist reason: It serves conservative/capitalist #CulturalHegemony by masking #Inequality and #Oppression with an illusion of moral neutrality.)

I'm a nerd about #Complexity, #ConceptualEngineering and theories of #Consciousness, think via #Notetaking and live with two fantastic #Dogs.

I value #Abstraction over analogy, #Artrock over Alternative and #AnimalRights over agribusiness.

The moderation standards of this instance will nudge me to be my full uncomfortable self. It's not like I haven't hung out with work colleagues at bars before, and I expect to refer a lot to my bar behavior as I deal with the good and the bad through this account. But the Mastodon norm of using more hashtags and CWs demands sharp distinctions, not just faint #Flagging in dim lighting. @Buster I hear you and I feel you. I think about #ConceptualEngineering a lot.

The moderation standards of this instance will nudge me to be my full uncomfortable self. It's not like I haven't hung out with work colleagues at bars before, and I expect to refer a lot to my bar behavior as I deal with the good and the bad through this account. But the Mastodon norm of using more hashtags and CWs demands sharp distinctions, not just faint #Flagging in dim lighting. @Buster I hear you and I feel you. I think about #ConceptualEngineering a lot.