Publications (chronological)

Books and volumes

  1. (2025). “New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering Vol. 1: Foundational Issues (co-edited with Manuel Gustavo Isaac & Kevin Scharp). Synthese Library. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98520-1
  2. (2025). “New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering Vol. 2: Across Philosophy (co-edited with Manuel Gustavo Isaac & Kevin Scharp). Synthese Library. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98524-9
  3. (2025). “New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering Vol. 3: Applied Conceptual Engineering (co-edited with Manuel Gustavo Isaac & Kevin Scharp). Synthese Library. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98535-5
  4. (2025). “Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Primer and Guide” (co-edited with Joachim Horvath & Michael Titlebaum), Philpapers Foundation.
  5. (2022). “Foundational issues in conceptual engineering”, Special issue of Inquiry (co-edited with Manuel Gustavo Isaac); invited contributors: David Chalmers, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Edouard Machery, Amie Thomasson. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/sinq20/68/9

Journal articles

  1. (forthcoming). “Verbale Dispute mit Meinungsverschiedenheiten. ein Kommentar zu Bloße Streitigkeiten um Worte, von Viktoria Knoll,” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung.
  2. (2025). “What does it take to establish reference in LLMs? Kripke vs. Austin”, Philosophy of AI, 1, 71-76. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/phai/2025.11963
  3. (2025). “Folk concepts of race, cross-culturally” (with Leda Berio, Daniel James, Benedict Kenyah-Damptey, & Alex Wiegmann), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2025.2521037
  4. (2025). “Heavy-duty conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), Noûs, 59(4), 902-920. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12538
  5. (2025). “Babbling stochastic parrots? A Kripkean argument for reference in large language models”, Philosophy of AI, 1, 19-44. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/phai/2025.2325
  6. (2025). “Ameliorative analysis, psychological essentialism, and the power of nouns”, Mind & Language, 40(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12538
  7. (2025). “Should we stop talking about “democracy”? Conceptual abandonment and the perils of political discourse,” Asian Journal of Philosophy, 4 (28), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-025-00250-6
  8. (2025). “Merely verbal agreement, speaker-meaning, and defective context”, Synthese, 205 (32). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04888-2
  9. (2025). “What is conceptual engineering good for? The argument from nameability” (with Gary Lupyan), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 110(2),403-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.13110
  10. (2024). “The anti-conceptual engineering argument and the problem of implementation”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 61 (1): 73-85. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.61.1.06
  11. (2024). “How words matter. A psycholinguistic argument for meaning revision”, Mind & Language, 39(3), 364-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12494
  12. (2023). “Recent work in the theory of conceptual engineering” (with Guido Löhr & Mark Pinder), Analysis, 83(3), 589–603 https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anad032
  13. (2023). “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, Erkenntnis, 88, 2123–2143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00446-1
  14. (2022). “Chalmers on virtual reality. Realism on the cheap?”, Analysis, 82(4), 766–774. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac068
  15. (2022). “Conceptual engineering: A road map to practice” (with Manuel Gustavo Isaac & Ryan Neftd), Philosophy Compass, 17(10), e12879. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12879 
  16. (2022). “Foundational issues in conceptual engineering: Introduction and overview” (with Manuel Gustavo Isaac), Inquiry,  68(9), 2893–2901. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2028230
  17. (2021). “Folk intuitions about reference change and the causal theory of reference” (with Alex Wiegmann), Ergo, 8(25), 31-58. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2226
  18. (2021). “There is no dilemma for conceptual engineering. Reply to Max Deutsch”, Philosophical Studies, 178(7), 2279-2291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01546-4
  19. (2021). “Experimental philosophy and the method of cases” (with Joachim Horvath), Philosophy Compass, 16 (1):e12716. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12716 
  20. (2021). “The Externalist Challenge to Conceptual Engineering”, Synthese, 198, 327–348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02007-6. 
  21. (2021). “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”, Synthese, 199 (1-2):1955-1975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02868-w.
  22. (2019). “Carnapian explications, experimental philosophy, and fruitful concepts”, Inquiry, 62 (6): 700-717. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2019.1567381 

Book chapters

  1. (2025). “Themen metaphilosophischer Forschung: Conceptual Engineering” (with Christian Nimtz), In: Lewin, Michael, & Minkin, D. (eds.), Handbuch Metaphilosophie, J. B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69683-5_69-1
  2. (2025). “Conceptual Engineering: A Brief Introduction”, in: Horvath, J., Koch, S., & Titelbaum, M. (eds.), Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Contemporary Reader, Philpapers Foundation.
  3. (2023). “Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering” (with Jochen Brisen), In: Aaron Pinnix, A., Volmar, A., Esposito, F. & Binder, N. (eds.), Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities, Transcript, 75-86.
  4. (2022). “Conceptual Engineering: Begriffe auf dem Prüfstand”, in: Grouls, Niklas and Martena, Laura (Eds.), Anspruch und Methode der Philosophie. Stimmen aus der Gegenwart, WBG, 101-130.
  5. (2019). “Theorien der Rechtfertigung. Reliabilismus”, in: Grajner, Martin and Melchior, Guido (Eds.), Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Metzler, 169-178.

Reviews

  1. (2019). “Herman Cappelen. Fixing Language. An Essay on the Foundations of Conceptual Engineering, Logical Analysis and the History of Philosophy, 20 (1): 248–256.

Non-academic publications

  1. (2025). “Trump und die ‘woke Sprachpolizei’: Alles nur Sprachmagie?,” praefaktisch philosophy blog: https://praefaktisch.de/002e/trump-und-die-woke-sprachpolizei-alles-nur-sprachmagie/
  2. (2025). “Merely verbal agreement, in philosophy and beyond,” New work in philosophy blog: https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/steffen-koch-university-of-bielefeld
  3. (2020). “Ein Rassismus ohne Rassisten?”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Ausgabe vom 24.06.2020.

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