M Pinder
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Pinder |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinder |
| SIGNATURE | PINDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5966-6307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Ought a Fruitful Explicatum to be
Many concepts are inadequate for serious inquiry, so theorists often seek to engineer new concepts. The method of explication, which involves replacing concepts with more fruitful alternatives, is a model of this process. In this paper, I develop an account of fruitfulness, the Relevant-Goals Account of Fruitfulness. The account is in the spirit of extant proposals, but develops and extends them in important ways. In particular, while it applies …
The phenomenon objection to conceptual engineering
Conceptual engineering is sometimes presented as an alternative to conceptual analysis. But one important objection to conceptual analysis threatens to carry across: that philosophy investigates phenomena—knowledge, truth, freedom, etc.—rather than concepts of those phenomena. This poses a prima facie problem insofar as conceptual engineering targets concepts or terms rather than phenomena. Call it the ‘phenomenon objection’. I begin by examining…
Is Haslanger’s ameliorative project a successful conceptual engineering project
Supporters of conceptual engineering often use Haslanger’s ameliorative project as a key example of their methodology. However, at face value, Haslanger’s project is no cause for optimism about conceptual engineering. If we interpret Haslanger as seeking to revise how people in general use and understand words such as ‘woman’, ‘man’, etc., then her project has been unsuccessful. And if we interpret her as seeking to reveal the meaning of those wo…
Conceptual Engineering, Metasemantic Externalism and Speaker-Meaning
What is the relationship between conceptual engineering and metasemantic externalism? Sally Haslanger has argued that metasemantic externalism justifies the seemingly counterintuitive consequences of her proposed conceptual revisions. But according to Herman Cappelen, metasemantic externalism makes conceptual engineering effectively impossible in practice. After raising objections to Haslanger’s and Cappelen’s views, I argue for a very different …
The Metaphysics of Representation
On Strawson’s critique of explication as a method in philosophy
Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language
The study of human language is, in large part, an empirical enterprise. So it is no surprise that philosophers of language are becoming increasingly interested in experimental data and the methods used to obtain those data. This has led to rapid growth in the literature on experimental philosophy of language, out of which two broad research programmes can be distinguished. The positive programme involves the collection and use of experimental dat…
Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language
The study of human language is, in large part, an empirical enterprise. So it is no surprise that philosophers of language are becoming increasingly interested in experimental data and the methods used to obtain those data. This has led to rapid growth in the literature on experimental philosophy of language, out of which two broad research programmes can be distinguished. The positive programme involves the collection and use of experimental dat…
On Strawson’s critique of explication as a method in philosophy
Conceptual Engineering, Metasemantic Externalism and Speaker-Meaning
What is the relationship between conceptual engineering and metasemantic externalism? Sally Haslanger has argued that metasemantic externalism justifies the seemingly counterintuitive consequences of her proposed conceptual revisions. But according to Herman Cappelen, metasemantic externalism makes conceptual engineering effectively impossible in practice. After raising objections to Haslanger’s and Cappelen’s views, I argue for a very different …
The Metaphysics of Representation
What Ought a Fruitful Explicatum to be
Many concepts are inadequate for serious inquiry, so theorists often seek to engineer new concepts. The method of explication, which involves replacing concepts with more fruitful alternatives, is a model of this process. In this paper, I develop an account of fruitfulness, the Relevant-Goals Account of Fruitfulness. The account is in the spirit of extant proposals, but develops and extends them in important ways. In particular, while it applies …
The phenomenon objection to conceptual engineering
Conceptual engineering is sometimes presented as an alternative to conceptual analysis. But one important objection to conceptual analysis threatens to carry across: that philosophy investigates phenomena—knowledge, truth, freedom, etc.—rather than concepts of those phenomena. This poses a prima facie problem insofar as conceptual engineering targets concepts or terms rather than phenomena. Call it the ‘phenomenon objection’. I begin by examining…
Is Haslanger’s ameliorative project a successful conceptual engineering project
Supporters of conceptual engineering often use Haslanger’s ameliorative project as a key example of their methodology. However, at face value, Haslanger’s project is no cause for optimism about conceptual engineering. If we interpret Haslanger as seeking to revise how people in general use and understand words such as ‘woman’, ‘man’, etc., then her project has been unsuccessful. And if we interpret her as seeking to reveal the meaning of those wo…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Conceptual framework (2 works)