Concepts, Beliefs, and Their Constellations A Proposal for Analytical Categories in the Study of Human Thought

The article argues that all disciplines examining human thought could use certain shared analytical categories. This would not mean eradicating all differences between various approaches such as intellectual history and discourse analysis, but acknowledging that they are examining partly the same ba...

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Published inContributions to the history of concepts Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 62 - 83
Main Author Karryla, Ilkka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Berghahn Books, Inc 01.06.2022
Subjects
Analysis
Bevir, Mark
Discourse analysis
History
Language
Linguistics
Ontology
Philosophy
Politics
Science
Scientists
Social sciences
United Kingdom
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Summary:The article argues that all disciplines examining human thought could use certain shared analytical categories. This would not mean eradicating all differences between various approaches such as intellectual history and discourse analysis, but acknowledging that they are examining partly the same basic entities. The article argues that ideational entities in human thought could be understood as concepts, beliefs, and their constellations. The article discusses the views of scholars who have theorized similar categories and shows how these can be studied through historical language use. Shared analytical categories would enhance interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars of human thought and allow more rigorous debates on issues that truly divide different disciplines, such as the explanatory values of human agency and structures.
ISSN:1807-9326
1874-656X
DOI:10.3167/choc.2022.170104