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. (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
  2. (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
  3. (2025). “Heavy-duty conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), Noûs, 59(4), 902-920. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12538
  4. (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
  5. (2025). “Ameliorative analysis, psychological essentialism, and the power of nouns”, Mind & Language, 40(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12538
  6. (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
  7. (2025). “Merely verbal agreement, speaker-meaning, and defective context”, Synthese, 205 (32). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04888-2
  8. (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
  9. (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
  10. (2024). “How words matter. A psycholinguistic argument for meaning revision”, Mind & Language, 39(3), 364-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12494
  11. (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
  12. (2023). “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, Erkenntnis, 88, 2123–2143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00446-1
  13. (2022). “Chalmers on virtual reality. Realism on the cheap?”, Analysis, 82(4), 766–774. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac068
  14. (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 
  15. (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
  16. (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
  17. (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
  18. (2021). “Experimental philosophy and the method of cases” (with Joachim Horvath), Philosophy Compass, 16 (1):e12716. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12716 
  19. (2021). “The Externalist Challenge to Conceptual Engineering”, Synthese, 198, 327–348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02007-6. 
  20. (2021). “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”, Synthese, 199 (1-2):1955-1975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02868-w.
  21. (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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