The phrase "affect our conception of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how something influences or changes the way we understand or perceive a particular idea or concept.
Example: "The new research findings may significantly affect our conception of climate change and its impacts on global ecosystems."
Alternatives: "influence our understanding of" or "shape our perception of".
Furthermore, this fact is hidden both by the continued use of the same term and by the same distortion of history that has affected our conception of Ptolemy and Copernicus.
How does the technological blurring of this boundary affect our ethical conceptions of humanity and inhumanity?
Insofar as our cultural conceptions affect our understandings of sex, feminists must be much more careful about sex classifications and rethink what sex amounts to (Stone 2007, chapter 1).
Feyerabend argued that these changes in meaning affect our theoretical and observational terms, as well as our conception of the nature of reality.
In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know that is, to teach; and how our conception of reality affects our actions and is modified by them.
Our conception of species even affects our understanding of human nature.
As the interest and the expansion of the movement continues, it is vital that we expand our conception of who is affected by police brutality as well.
Even our conception of human nature is affected by our understanding of species.
ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self-conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency).
Just as our conception of the aim of belief influences our conception of the doxastic norms, so does it affect the extent to which parallels can be drawn between the ethics of belief and the ethics of action generally.
