Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering

Mona Simion is Professor of Philosophy and Michael Cohen Fellow of the Exeter College at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on epistemology, philosophy of language, and moral and political philosophy. She is the author of Knowledge-First Epistemology: A Defence (CUP 2025), Resistance to Evidence (CUP, 2024), Shifty Speech and Independent Thought (OUP, 2021), and Sharing Knowledge (CUP, 2021, with Christoph Kelp), and co-editor of Reasons, Justification, and Defeat (OUP, 2021, with Jessica Brown). She is the Mind Fellow 2018 and the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021. She has led major research projects funded by the European Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. Christoph Kelp is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. His work is in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and ethics. He is the author of The Nature and Normativity of Defeat (CUP 2023), Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding (OUP 2021), Sharing Knowledge (CUP 2021, with Mona Simion), and Good Thinking (Routledge 2018), and co-editor of Virtue Theoretic Epistemology (CUP 2020 with John Greco). He is the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2017. He has led major research projects funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and Research Foundation Flanders.

- Part I. Conceptual Engineering: Foundational Issues - Chapter 1: Conceptual Engineering: Repair, Replacement, and Innovation - Chapter 2: The Case Against Conceptual Engineering - Chapter 3: Conceptual Innovation - Part II. Conceptual Ethics and Conceptual Epistemology - Chapter 4: Normative Restrictions on Conceptual Engineering - Chapter 5: Conceptual Ignorance - Chapter 6: Expressive Power and Duties of Meaning Production - Part III. Conceptual Politics - Chapter 7: Engineering Social Kind Concepts - Chapter 8: Expressive Power, Hermeneutical Injustice, and Conceptual Access - Chapter 9: On Conceptual Disinformation - Conclusion