The phrase "alternative conception of a" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different ways of understanding or interpreting a particular concept or idea.
Example: "The researchers proposed an alternative conception of a sustainable economy that challenges traditional views."
Alternatives: "different understanding of a" or "alternative interpretation of a".
And they use it to refer to alternative conceptions of a non-statist democratic order.
As reported, experts rarely discussed alternative conceptions of a particular value different to their own.
Some feminists interpret Irigaray's work on sexual difference as suggesting an alternative conception of power as transformative, a conception that is grounded in a specifically feminine economy (see Irigaray 1981 and Kuykendall 1983).
After outlining an alternative conception of the state, as an idea that produces 'state effects' rather than an empirical entity separate from society, the value of this concept is illustrated by showing how it can explain banknote production in the stateless nation of Scotland.
How might this alternative conception of social facts guide a critical and praxeological theory of globalization?
Another 'unorthodox' approach incorporates the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics and in particular it has been suggested that it might form the basis of an alternative conception of particle individuality in terms of their spatio-temporal trajectories.
Mishra correctly assesses Smith's project as an advocacy and expression of the need for an alternative conception of subjectivity, one that is multiplicitous, self-questioning without being self-negating.
A leading representative of the former group, W.H. Dray, not only constructed a series of arguments to demonstrate the deficiencies of the covering-law theory but further proposed an alternative conception of "rational explanation," which it was suggested fitted many of the familiar ways whereby historians seek to render the past intelligible.
At about the time the Bayesian logicist idea was developing, an alternative conception of probabilistic inductive reasoning was also emerging.
