What topic continuity problem

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21335128
AutoresAlexander W Kocurek (0000-0002-0912-1488, Cornell University, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume68
Fascículo7
Páginas1961-1981
Data de publicação2025-08-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-174X • E-ISSN: 1502-3923
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0020174x.2022.2126884
OpenAlexW4302028432
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas52

A common objection to the very idea of conceptual engineering is the topic continuity problem: whenever one tries to ‘reengineer’ a concept, one only shifts attention away from one concept to another. Put differently, there is no such thing as conceptual revision: there's only conceptual replacement. Here, I show that topic continuity is compatible with conceptual replacement. Whether the topic is preserved in an act of conceptual replacement simply depends on what is being replaced (a conceptual tool or a conceptual role) and what the topic under discussion is. Thus, the topic continuity problem only arises from a failure to specify these two things

Cognition · Conceptual Blending · Conceptual framework · Conceptual model · Conceptual schema · Epistemology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology