This paper proposes an analysis of the discursive dynamics of high-impact concepts in the humanities. These are concepts whose formation and development have a lasting and wide-ranging effect on research and our understanding of discursive reality in general. The notion of a conceptual practice, based on a normative conception of practice, is introduced, and practices are identified, on this perspective, according to the way their respective performances are held mutually accountable. This normative conception of practices is then combined with recent work from philosophy of science that characterizes concepts in terms of conceptual capacities that are productive, open-ended, and applicable beyond the original context they were developed in. It is shown that the formation of concepts can be identified by changes in how practitioners hold exercise of their conceptual capacities accountable when producing knowledge about a phenomenon. In a manner similar to the use of operational definitions in scientific practices, such concepts can also be used to intervene in various discourses within or outside the conceptual practice. Using the formation of the concepts “mechanism” and “performative” as examples, the paper shows how high-impact concepts reconfigure what is at issue and at stake in conceptual practices. As philosophy and other humanities disciplines are its domain of interest, it is a contribution to the methodology of the humanities.

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作为概念实践的人文科学：哲学及其他领域高影响力概念的形成与发展

本文提出了对人文学科中高影响力概念的话语动态的分析。这些概念的形成和发展对研究和我们对一般话语现实的理解具有持久而广泛的影响。概念实践的概念，基于规范的实践概念，在这个角度上，根据他们各自的表现相互负责的方式，引入了实践，并确定了实践。然后，这种规范的实践概念与最近的科学哲学工作相结合，这些工作根据概念能力来描述概念，这些能力是生产性的、开放式的，并且可以在它们发展的原始环境之外适用。结果表明，概念的形成可以通过从业者在产生有关现象的知识时如何对其概念能力的行使负责的变化来识别。以类似于在科学实践中使用操作定义的方式，这些概念也可以用于干预概念实践内部或外部的各种话语。本文以“机制”和“执行性”概念的形成为例，展示了高影响力概念如何重新配置​​概念实践中的问题和风险。由于哲学和其他人文学科是其感兴趣的领域，因此它是对人文学科方法论的贡献。