Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering

Herman Cappelen investigates how language and other representational devices can go wrong, and how to fix them. We use language to understand and talk about the world, but what if our language has deficiencies that prevent it from playing that role? How can we revise our concepts, and what are the limits on revision? Fixing Language is the first full philosophical treatment of these questions, and along the way it shows that they have roots deep in the history of analytic philosophy.