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Conceptual Analysis

Political Psychology
Political Theory
Methods
P061
Keith Dowding
Australian National University
Pamela Pansardi
Università degli Studi di Pavia

Building: Faculty of Social Sciences, Floor: 2, Room: FS212

Thursday 09:00 - 10:40 CEST (08/09/2016)

Abstract

Papers here consider the role of conceptual analysis in political theory, including analysing the desiderata of concepts, the possibility of specifying necessary and sufficient conditions; essential contestability; value pluralism, ‘family resemblance’ and what these mean for conceptual analysis; and what conceptual analysis can contribute to normative theory

Title Details
Rigid Designation, Essential Contestability and Value Pluralism View Paper Details
Analysing Essentially Evaluative Concepts: The Case of Justice View Paper Details
Coherentist Justification against the Methodological Priority Thesis View Paper Details
The incoherence of essentially contested concepts View Paper Details