Shifting Concepts The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability

Teresa Teresa, University of Barcelona,?sa Wikforss, Stockholm University

Teresa Marques is a researcher in the Philosophy Department of the University of Barcelona and a member of the LOGOS Group and of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy. Her research interests lie in the philosophy of language, metaethics, and social and legal philosophy. In 2014 she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship. In 2012-2015, she was a PI in the cross-disciplinary project on concepts and communication CCCOM, a EUROCORES project of the European Science Foundation. She has also held positions at the University Pompeu Fabra, the University of Lisbon, and the University of Maryland - University College Europe.


?sa Wikforss is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University. She is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science and in 2019 she was elected to the Swedish Academy. Her research interests lie in the intersection of philosophy of language, mind, and epistemology. In 2012-2015 she was the leader of a cross-disciplinary project on concepts and communication CCCOM, a EUROCORES project of the European Science Foundation, and in 2018 she was awarded a large grant for a cross-disciplinary program on knowledge resistance, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Introduction: Shifting Concepts, Teresa Marques and Åsa Wikforss
Part I. How Concepts Shift: Variation Across Individuals, Times, and Contexts
1. Mapping Thoughts to Words: Cross-Language Differences, Learning, and Communication, Barbara C. Malt
2. How to Make Psychological Generalizations When Concepts Differ: A Case Study of Conceptual Development, Gregory L. Murphy
3. When does communication succeed? The case of general terms, Peter Pagin
4. Investigating Differences in People's Concept Representations, James A. Hampton
5. Color Categories in Context, Yasmina Jraissati
6. The Myth of the Common-Sense Conception of Colour, Zed Adams and Nat Hansen
7. Variation in Natural Kind Concepts, Daniel Cohnitz and Jussi Haukioja
Part II. To Shift a Concept: Conceptual Revolution, Amelioration, and Perversion
8. Conceptual Revolution, Joshua Glasgow
9. The Folk Concept of Race, Edouard Machery and Luc Faucher
10. On the Conceptual Mismatch Argument: Descriptions, Disagreement, and Amelioration, Esa D?az-Le?n
11. Conceptual Fragmentation and the Use of 'Race' in Scientific Theorizing, Robin O. Andreasen
12. How Not to Change the Subject, Sally Haslanger
13. Amelioration vs. Perversion, Teresa Marques