There is a difference between concept analysis—which ideally ends with words having a useful meaning—and a different, less productive kind of analysis which ideally ends up with words in a discussion having the same meaning that they have outside the discussion.
Philosophers are indeed uniquely trained to conduct the first kind of analysis.
I don’t get it. You don’t think philosophers should dispute what words ought to mean?
Isn’t sorting out terminology one of the more important jobs of the philosophy of science?
If not philosophers, who do you think should be doing that work?
There is a difference between concept analysis—which ideally ends with words having a useful meaning—and a different, less productive kind of analysis which ideally ends up with words in a discussion having the same meaning that they have outside the discussion.
Philosophers are indeed uniquely trained to conduct the first kind of analysis.