The phrase "conceptual inquiry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in academic or philosophical contexts when discussing the examination or exploration of concepts and ideas.
Example: "The paper focuses on conceptual inquiry into the nature of justice and its implications for modern society."
Alternatives: "theoretical investigation" or "philosophical exploration".
Modern readers of Aristotle are inclined to take both the Physica and the Metaphysica as philosophical treatises; the distinction their titles suggest between an empirical and a conceptual inquiry has little foundation.
By experimenting with a range of methods and materials, and engaging in dialog and self reflection, we will expand our capacity to teach and learn through sensory experience and conceptual inquiry.
But conceptual inquiry had been his work to date, from the Living Forces to the Only Possible Ground.
Our aesthetic engagements are occasions and activities of just this kind; thus aesthetics, as a field of conceptual inquiry, should start not from a presumption that the central task is to analyze the determinant properties that are named by aesthetic predicates, but rather with a full-blooded consideration of the activities of aesthetic life.
For Lowder, the optical result of this conceptual inquiry is the addition of gestural, emotional, trance-like abstract painting.
But history also indicates intuition unreliably guides conceptual inquiry.
"Introduction to Computer Science Peer Assistance" was introduced as a co-requisite for all students taking Computer Science I. Initially, this course provided peer-assisted laboratory time to work on pre-existing course projects, but over time, it developed a more conceptual, inquiry-based curriculum.
These two conceptual inquiries intersect.
Is conceptual philosophical inquiry into reality capable of certainty?
Carnap clearly retained his allegiance to the linguistic turn: existence claims remain the province of science and there must be seen as mediated by the available conceptual tools of inquiry.
While debate continues on the appropriate relationship between empirical and conceptual modes of inquiry, there seems to be agreement that empirical findings can and do contribute to the discourse on normative ethics.
