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Politics, Words, and Concepts: On the Impossibility and Undesirability of ‘Amelioration’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2024
Abstract
Recently, several philosophers have argued that there is a political necessity to alter certain important concepts, such as WOMAN, in order to give us better tools to understand and change oppressive conditions. I argue that conceptual change of this sort is impossible. But I also argue that it is politically unnecessary – we can effect progressive change using the same old concepts we've always had.
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