Manuel Gustavo Isaac

Dados Biográficos

ID2013687
NOMEManuel Gustavo Isaac
PRENOMESManuel Gustavo
SOBRENOMEIsaac
ASSINATURAISAAC M G
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-5479-5027
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES26
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
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  • Foundational issues in conceptual engineering

    Manuel Gustavo Isaac, KochARTICLEInquiry2025

    This is the introduction to the Special Issue ‘Foundational Issues in Conceptual Engineering’. The issue contains contributions by James Andow, Delia Belleri, David Chalmers, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Eugen Fischer, Viktoria Knoll, Edouard Machery and Amie Thomasson. We, the editors, provide a brief introduction to the main topics of the issue and then summarize its contributions

  • How to conceptually engineer conceptual engineering

    Manuel Gustavo IsaacARTICLEInquiry2025

    Conceptual engineering means to provide a method to assess and improve our concepts working as cognitive devices. But conceptual engineering still lacks an account of what concepts are as cognitive devices and of what engineering is in the case of conceptual cognition. And without such prior understanding of its subject matter, or so it is claimed here, conceptual engineering is bound to remain useless, merely operating as a piecemeal approach, w…

  • Post-truth conceptual engineering

    Manuel Gustavo IsaacARTICLEInquiry2024

    Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our concepts. Some have recently claimed that the implementation of such method in the form of ameliorative projects is truth-driven and should thus be epistemically constrained, ultimately at least (Simion, Mona. 2018b. “The ‘Should’ in Conceptual Engineering.” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 61 (8): 914–928; cf. Podosky, Paul-Mikhail Catapang. 2018. “Ideology a…

  • Which Concept of Concept for Conceptual Engineering

    Open AccessManuel Gustavo IsaacARTICLEErkenntnis2023

    Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our concepts. However, little has been written about how best to conceive of concepts for the purposes of conceptual engineering. In this paper, I aim to fill this foundational gap, proceeding in three main steps: First, I propose a methodological framework for evaluating the conduciveness of a given concept of concept for conceptual engineering. Then, I develop a typology that cont…

  • Conceptual engineering

    Open AccessManuel Gustavo Isaac, Koch et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2022Citada por: 26Referências: 86

    This paper discusses the logical space of alternative conceptual engineering projects, with a specific focus on (1) the processes, (2) the targets and goals, and (3) the methods of such projects. We present an overview of how these three aspects interact in the contemporary literature and discuss those alternative projects that have yet to be explored based on our suggested typology. We show how choices about each element in a conceptual engineer…

  • Broad‐spectrum conceptual engineering

    Open AccessManuel Gustavo IsaacARTICLERatio2021

    Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our representational devices. On its ‘broad‐spectrum’ version, it is expected to be appropriately applicable to any of our representation‐involving cognitive activities, with major consequences for our whole cognitive life. This paper is about the theoretical foundations of conceptual engineering thus characterised. With a view to ensuring the actionability of conceptual engineering…

  • Toward a phenomenological epistemology of mathematical logic

    Open AccessManuel Gustavo IsaacARTICLESynthese2018Referências: 22