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In the field of the History of Political Thought, the Conceptual History, aided by Philology, has proved to be an useful tool to correct the anachronisms derived from the History of Ideas. Reinhard Koselleck from the field of German Theory, and Quentin Skinner and John Pocock from the Cambridge School have developed, from differents points of view, an accurate methodology to investigate historicial concepts and discourses. This article revises critically their basic characteristics, their differences and similarities. It wonders, finally, about its application in literary investigation and suggest some specific guidelines to make them effective. ; En el ámbito de la historia del pensamiento político, la historia del concepto, ayudada por la filología, se ha mostrado como un instrumento útil para corregir los anacronismos derivados de la historia de las ideas. Reinhard Koselleck, en el terreno de la teoría alemana, y Quentin Skinner y John Pocock en la Escuela de Cambridge han desarrollado, desde distintos presupuestos, una precisa metodología de investigación de los conceptos y discursos históricos. Este artículo repasa críticamente sus rasgos fundamentales, sus puntos comunes y diferencias. Finalmente se pregunta por su aplicación a la investigación literaria y sugiere algunas pautas concretas para hacerla efectiva.

Although biologists recognize evolutionary ecology by name, many only have a limited understanding of its conceptual roots and historical development. Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology fills that knowledge gap in a thought-provoking and readable format. Written by a world-renowned evolutionary ecologist, this book embodies a unique blend of expertise in combining theory and experiment, population genetics and ecology. Following an easily-accessible structure, this book encapsulates and chronologizes the history behind evolutionary ecology. It also focuses on the integration of age-structure and density-dependent selection into an understanding of life-history evolution. --

This article explores the development of Korea's conceptual history from the perspective of sociology of knowledge by focusing on the intellectual environment since the early 1990s, pioneers and areas of conceptual research, the kinds of expectations that Korean scholars have of conceptual research, data archiving and methodology, works and tasks of conceptual history in Korea. The article finds that the conceptual research on Korea's modernization is a good approach to construct a reflexive history beyond the false dichotomy of Western influence and nationalistic response.

The last decade has witnessed a remarkable internationalization in conceptual history. Research covers more countries and languages than ever before, and there have been a number of very good comparative studies. This article reflects on the possibility of taking conceptual history beyond comparison. Like nations, languages can no longer be considered as naturally given entities, but have to be viewed as profoundly shaped by historical exchanges. This brings conceptual history into a dialogue with translation studies in a common attempt to unravel how equivalents between languages have been created by the actors.

Despite longstanding efforts of leading scholars to standardize usage of the term "democracy" in scholarly practice on the basis of precise operational definitions, David Collier and Steven Levitsky found a proliferation of subtypes, a phenomenon they refer to as "democracy with adjectives." Efforts to define democracy in terms of a "procedural minimum" or those conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a democracy have not produced the intended uniformity of usage and high degrees of intercoder reliability, but rather led to the identification of hundreds of subtypes, of which "authoritarian democracy," "neopatrimonial democracy," "military-dominated democracy," and "protodemocracy," are a few. As they see it, scholars confront a dilemma. On the one hand, there is an impulse to maximize analytic differentiation in order to capture the wide variety of democracies that have emerged across the globe. On the other, there is a necessary concern for conceptual validity and to avoid what Giovanni Sartori referred to as "conceptual stretching."

In this article, we discuss the pitfalls and benefits of conceptual history as an approach to Ottoman studies. While Ottoman studies is blossoming and using a wider set of tools to study the Ottoman past, Ottoman intellectual history is still resigned to a life-and-works approach. Th is absence of synthesizing attempts has left intellectual history in the margins. In addition to the lack of new, theoretically sophisticated accounts of how Ottoman intellectual
and political changes were intertwined, the old Orientalist works
still hold canonical status in the field. Drawing on recent developments in social and political history, conceptual history may be a good way of doing self-reflective longue durée intellectual history. Ottoman conceptual history may also off er nonspecialists more sophisticated bases for comparison with non-Ottoman cases.

This article reviews Giyoo Hatano's ground-breaking theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to conceptual change research. In particular, his discovery of 'vitalism' as part of children's legitimate and distinctive biology at early ages stands as a landmark. In addition, his work reinterpreted childhood 'personification,' changing it from an indicator of deficient intellect, to a creative and often insightful strategy for coming to understand biology.

""6. Lockean Hybridist Account of Meaning""""7. Hegelian Pragmatist Account of Meaning""; ""8. Lessons for Kantian Conceptual Geography""; ""EIGHT Problems That a Kantian Account of Meaning Faces""; ""1. First Three Putative Problems: Indeterminacy, Relativism, and Incommensurability""; ""2. Fourth and Fifth Putative Problem: Infinite Regression and Truth-Value Relativism""; ""3. Sixth Putative Problem: Empirical-Property Relativism""; ""4. Seventh Putative Problem: A Plurality of Empirical Worlds""; ""5. Eighth Putative Problem: Movability Between Empirical Worlds""

A CAREFUL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CONCEPTUAL SYSTEM IN CHAPTER 1, BOOK I OF K. VON CLAUSEWITZ'S VOM KRIEGE ON WAR (NO PUBLICATION INFORMATION AVAILABLE) REVEALS THE MANNER IN WHICH CLAUSEWITZ RECONCILED THE 2 SPECIES OF WAR THAT THE WORK SEEMS TO ADUMBRATE & WHICH OTHERWISE SEEM CONTRADICTORY. CLAUSEWITZ RIGHTLY CONSIDERED THIS CHAPTER AS THE MOST COMPLETE CHAPTER OF HIS WORK, BECAUSE OF ITS RIGOROUS ANALYSIS WHICH ALLOWS RIGHT OF HIS THOUGHT AS A WHOLE. IT IS SUPERIOR TO THE FINAL (BUT INCOMPLETE) CHAPTER & THE FOREWARD. CLAUSEWITZ PROCEEDS FROM 2 DEFINITIONS OF WAR, ONE INVOLVING 2 TERMS & THE OTHER 3 TERMS. IN THE COURSE OF HIS ANALYSIS HE MOVES TO WHERE THE 2-TERM DEFINITION CAN BE SEEN EMBEDDED IN THE 3- TERM DEFINITION, TO WHICH IT IS INFERIOR. THE 2-TERM DEFINITION & THE IDEAL OF ABSOLUTE WAR IT PROCLAIMS, THEN, IS SUBORDINATE IN CLAUSEWITZ'S THOUGHT TO THE 3-TERM DEFINITION & ITS STRESS ON WAR AS CONCRETE & HISTORICAL, & NECESSARILY SUBORDINATE TO POLITICAL POLICY. F. HYDOSKI.