This study examines W.B. Gallie’s claim that a special group of concepts, i.e., essentially contested concepts, bring about endless and rationally irresolvable yet perfectly genuine disputes about their proper employment. The obscurity of Gallie’s original thesis has contributed to diverging interpretations and thus rendered the term ‘essentially contested concept’ ambiguous today. Moreover, attempts to make a firm enough case for the existence of essentially contested concepts have arguably failed. This work sets things straight in three main ways. First, it offers the most detailed discussion of Gallie’s thesis of essential contestedness to date. Second, it provides a comprehensive account of the critical reception of Gallie’s thesis. Thi...
This thesis is about the politics of debating what sort of knowledge should be produced by organisat...
In knowledge disputes about the paradigmatic status of management and organisation studies, many com...
An essay on the so called essential contestability of concepts and its implications for political an...
Tutkielmassani tarkastelen W.B. Gallien teoriaa essentiaalisesti kiistettävistä käsitteistä. Gallien...
ABSTRACT Conceptual confusion has long been a source of difficulty in the study of politics. W. B. G...
In 1956, W.B. Gallie introduced his idea of essentially contested concepts. In my paper, I offer a n...
“Since the term was coined by W. B. Gallie, the idea of essentially contested concepts has been used...
Since Gallie introduced the notion of essentially contested concepts, it has given rise to consider...
I explore and defend the distinction between an abstract concept and conceptions of that concept—dif...
I argue that law is not best considered an essentially contested concept. After first explaining the...
Normative concepts are said to lead to controversial discussions and involve indefinite and valuable...
In chapter one I present Heinrich Rickert's theory of concept formation. Influenced by Kant, Rickert...
Van Eemeren and Houtlosser concentrate on the tension inherent in argumentative discourse between th...
Evaluative and normative terms and concepts are often said to be "essentially contestable". This not...
The objective of this study was to observe the ways in which young people indicate disagreement in a...
This thesis is about the politics of debating what sort of knowledge should be produced by organisat...
In knowledge disputes about the paradigmatic status of management and organisation studies, many com...
An essay on the so called essential contestability of concepts and its implications for political an...
Tutkielmassani tarkastelen W.B. Gallien teoriaa essentiaalisesti kiistettävistä käsitteistä. Gallien...
ABSTRACT Conceptual confusion has long been a source of difficulty in the study of politics. W. B. G...
In 1956, W.B. Gallie introduced his idea of essentially contested concepts. In my paper, I offer a n...
“Since the term was coined by W. B. Gallie, the idea of essentially contested concepts has been used...
Since Gallie introduced the notion of essentially contested concepts, it has given rise to consider...
I explore and defend the distinction between an abstract concept and conceptions of that concept—dif...
I argue that law is not best considered an essentially contested concept. After first explaining the...
Normative concepts are said to lead to controversial discussions and involve indefinite and valuable...
In chapter one I present Heinrich Rickert's theory of concept formation. Influenced by Kant, Rickert...
Van Eemeren and Houtlosser concentrate on the tension inherent in argumentative discourse between th...
Evaluative and normative terms and concepts are often said to be "essentially contestable". This not...
The objective of this study was to observe the ways in which young people indicate disagreement in a...
This thesis is about the politics of debating what sort of knowledge should be produced by organisat...
In knowledge disputes about the paradigmatic status of management and organisation studies, many com...
An essay on the so called essential contestability of concepts and its implications for political an...