Essentially Contested Concepts

By W. B. Gallie. 2019

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Measurement and Fairness (2019, background): “agreement. This disagreement marks fairness as as an essentially contested construct, i.e., a construct for which the space of theoretical understandings are inherently con icting and context-specic [25, 48]. Without theoretical agreement, there ought to be no way to assess how well any operationali”
A Review of the Empirical Literature on Meaningful Work: Progress and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Thus, meaningfulness emerges as an “essentially contested concept” (Gallie, 1956), likely to produce further debate and variation as scholars expand their conceptual understanding and accumulate new evidence.”
Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media (2018, methodology): “2018). It can be understood as what W. B. Gallie terms an ‘essentially contested concept’ – a concept with numerous definitions and descriptions but little consensus as to what the core features are (Gallie, 1956). In the present work, we use Bleich’s widely cited definition of Islamophobia, as this”
This Thing Called Fairness (2019, background): “Conceptually speaking, something has to give: considerations of fairness inherently pit different equities against each other and fairness is often described as essentially contested [51].”