Abstract
ABSTRACT Mark Pinder's (2019. “Conceptual Engineering, Metasemantic Externalism and Speaker-Meaning.” Mind; A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. doi:10.1093/mind/fzz069) ‘Speaker Meaning Picture of Conceptual Engineering’ trivializes the method of conceptual engineering, picturing it as too easy to be effective in contributing to solutions to philosophical problems. This article presents an argument for this conclusion, offers counter-replies to Pinder's replies, and paints a highly skeptical alternative picture of conceptual engineering. It also fills out an interpretation of Sally Haslanger's (2000. “Gender and Race: (What) are They? (What) do we Want Them to be?” Noûs 34 (1): 31–55; 2006. “What Good are our Intuitions? Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary 80 (1): 89–118) methodology first sketched in Deutsch 2020.
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