“Conceptual engineering is a field in analytic philosophy that focuses on how to best assess and improve our conceptual schemes and repertoires. One of its key features is its normative agenda: conceptual engineers aim to prescribe which concepts we ought to have and use, instead of merely describing those we have and use”
“The most standard reference in the literature is to Rudolf Carnap’s notion of explication as a precursory method of conceptual engineering for theoretical purposes”
“Conceptual engineering can be understood in terms of its three components: design, which is about the normative improvement of our concepts; implementation, which is about the actual uptake of the prescribed concepts via advocacy strategies; and evaluation, which is about the quality assessment of our concepts along different dimensions”
“References
- [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_engineering#cite_ref-1) Carnap, Rudolf (1950). “On explication”. Logical Foundations of Probability. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1–18. ISBN 0226093433.”