Conceptual Ethics: What Is It & What Should It Be?

Recent years have seen increased systematic attention to conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics. Yet, most of this attention has focused on questions concerning our understanding of conceptual engineering as an enterprise – what its objects are, whether it is even possible, how it is to be implemented, what a fitting methodology for it would be, etc. – and relatively little on first-order normative questions in conceptual ethics. Our workshop aims to identify the first-order normative questions that arise in conceptual ethics, to determine whether any of them are special or distinctive, and to generally pave the way for projects in first-order conceptual ethics, e.g. by examining which features such projects need to be attentive to and if the function of a concept is an appropriate starting point for such projects.