Maya Krishnan, (2025) “Over-intelligibility”, Political Philosophy 2(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/pp.24931 Abstract Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet …