Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines a new challenge for the feasibility of conceptual engineering: ‘the attractor challenge’. I argue that the prospects of reforming some concepts are poor because of their psychological nature. They are attractors: The mind is drawn to think with them, and engineering efforts are unlikely to succeed in replacing these concepts. The attractor challenge is illustrated by a substantial body of experimental research on the concept of innateness.

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