Rethinking the Ocean: Conceptual Engineering for the Next 10,000 Years

Roberto Casati; Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde; Emilie Flamme; Alberto Gallace; Quentin Hiernaux; Stefano Malatesta; Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg; Enrico Squarcina; Colomban de Vargas; Eva Wanek

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-98535-5_4

Rethinking the Ocean: Conceptual Engineering for the Next 10,000 Years

Roberto Casati
, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
, Emilie Flamme
, Alberto Gallace
, Quentin Hiernaux
, Stefano Malatesta
, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
, Enrico Squarcina
, Colomban de Vargas
, Eva Wanek

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Abstract

The ocean constitutes an interesting case study for conceptual negotiation and reconceptualization, in view of its otherness, of the current pressure exerted by anthropic activities on many aspects of oceanic status and life, of new, emerging knowledge about its physical and biological nature, and in particular in view of the need to look for and plan actions on a long time span, measured not in decades, but in centuries and millennia. The present contribution analyzes existing conceptualizations of the ocean that in the current context lean towards misconceptions, and in its programmatic part proposes reconceptualizations that can eventually inform public policies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Synthese Library
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	69-93
Number of pages	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98535-5_4
State	Published - 2025
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Synthese Library
Volume	515
ISSN (Print)	0166-6991
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-8292

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Keywords

Anthropocene
Climate change
Conceptual engineering
Conceptual negotiation
Ocean
Reconceptualization of the ocean

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
History
Logic
History and Philosophy of Science

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Casati, R., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Flamme, E., Gallace, A., Hiernaux, Q., Malatesta, S., di Friedberg, M. S., Squarcina, E., de Vargas, C., & Wanek, E. (2025). Rethinking the Ocean: Conceptual Engineering for the Next 10,000 Years. In Synthese Library (pp. 69-93). (Synthese Library; Vol. 515). Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98535-5_4

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