Faculty Scholarship Series Spring 2023
Faculty Scholarship Series:
Sabbatical Presentation - Metaphysical agency in conceptual engineering
Conceptual engineers take seriously the claim that concepts like family, disability, race, and gender literally shape reality. But what is it that these engineers actually do when they go about engineering concepts? Hint: they don’t need a literal toolbox to do it. I want to suggest that they engage in a distinctive kind of agency.