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    Externalist perspectives on meaning change and conceptual stability
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 63 (9-10): 1023-1035. 2020.
    ABSTRACT In recent debates about conceptual engineering, it appears that the internalist has an explanatory advantage when it comes to accounting for meaning change and conceptual change. In this paper, I argue against this impression. I show how two different varieties of externalism, originalism and anti-individualism, can coherently explain various cases of meaning change, irrespective of whether they involve proper names or kind terms; and also irrespective of whether they occur in everyday,…Read more