Linguistic Interventions and the Ethics of Conceptual Disruption
Several authors in psychology and philosophy have recently raised the following question: when is it permissible to intentionally change the meaning and use of our words and concepts? I argue that an arguably prior question has received much less attention: Even if there were good moral or epistemic...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2022
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 835-849 |
Further subjects: | B
Concepts
B Communicative disruption B Conceptual ethics B Conceptual engineering B linguistic intervention B Concept creeps B Meaning |
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