{"id":2618,"date":"2016-10-01T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2017-09-13T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:08:30","slug":"conceptual-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/conceptual-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Cappelen, in collaboration with Oystein Linnebo and Camilla Serck-Hanssen, has received a \u00a32.5 million, 5 year grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hf.uio.no\/ifikk\/english\/research\/projects\/cl\/our%20research%20themes\/index.html\">Conceptual Engineering.<\/a><br \/>\nIn any inquiry, whether scientific or practical, we use concepts to frame questions about reality. An obvious way in which the inquiry can be successful is by yielding answers to the resulting questions. A far less obvious form of success has to do with asking the \u201cright\u201d questions, formulated using the \u201cright\u201d concepts. It is clear that many great leaps in human insight and understanding have been associated with the forging of \u201cbetter\u201d concepts, which has enabled us to ask \u201cbetter\u201d questions: in physics, the differentiation of weight and mass; in mathematics, the Cantorian notion of \u201csize\u201d or number; in economics, the articulation of the present concept of money; in social science the concept of gender, as opposed to sex. These are illustrations of how conceptual progress has been made in the past.<br \/>\nOur project has three parts: one part aims to develop a general theory of conceptual engineering, another focuses on the engineering of formal concepts, and a third is concerned with social\/political concepts such as \u2018combatant\u2019 and \u2018privacy\u2019.<br \/>\nThe NFR Project Conceptual Engineering is a part of the ConceptLab. For more information about ConceptLab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Cappelen, in collaboration with Oystein Linnebo and Camilla Serck-Hanssen, has received a \u00a32.5 million, 5 year grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}