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  • Conceptual Engineering
  • Epistemology

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  • Existing literature focuses on reactive conceptual engineering to fix disrupted concepts.
  • Recent work suggests preventative design to build concept resistance.
  • The concept of conceptual stability has been proposed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce and develop the notion of conceptual resilience.
  • Argue for resilience over stability to capture adaptive resistance.
  • Propose heuristic framings for conceptual resilience.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and conceptual analysis.
  • Development of the concept of conceptual resilience.
  • Introduction of two heuristic framings: Conceptual Resilience as Immutability (CRI) and Conceptual Resilience as Adaptability (CRA).

Main Results:

  • Conceptual resilience is defined as the capacity of concepts to maintain functional adequacy under pressure.
  • Conceptual resilience is a graded capacity, not binary.
  • CRI and CRA offer complementary ways to understand concept resistance to disruption.

Conclusions:

  • Conceptual resilience offers a more comprehensive framework than conceptual stability.
  • The proposed framings provide tools for analyzing and designing resilient concepts.
  • This work shifts focus towards proactive concept design in the philosophy of technology.