Abstract

In this paper, I argue that an adequate meta-semantic framework capable ofaccommodating the range of projects currently identified as projects inconceptual engineering must be sensitive to the fact that concepts (andhence projects relating to them) fall into distinct kinds. Concepts can vary, Iwill argue, with respect to their direction of determination, their modalrange, and their temporal range. Acknowledging such variations yields apreliminary taxonomy of concepts and generates a meta-semantic frameworkthat allows us both to accommodate the full range of cases and to identify aproper subset of concepts for special ameliorative consideration. Ignoringsuch variations, in contrast, leads to a restricted meta-semantic frameworkthat accommodates only a subset of the particular projects while generatingimplausible accounts of others.