diff --git a/src/config.coffee b/src/config.coffee
index a598575c0..b7893087e 100644
--- a/src/config.coffee
+++ b/src/config.coffee
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ class Config
     @emitter.emit 'did-change'
 
   getRawScopedValue: (scopeDescriptor, keyPath) ->
-    scopeDescriptor = ScopeDescriptor.create(scopeDescriptor)
+    scopeDescriptor = ScopeDescriptor.fromObject(scopeDescriptor)
     @scopedSettingsStore.getPropertyValue(scopeDescriptor.getScopeChain(), keyPath)
 
   observeScopedKeyPath: (scopeDescriptor, keyPath, callback) ->
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ class Config
   # * language mode uses it for one thing.
   # * autocomplete uses it for editor.completions
   settingsForScopeDescriptor: (scopeDescriptor, keyPath) ->
-    scopeDescriptor = ScopeDescriptor.create(scopeDescriptor)
+    scopeDescriptor = ScopeDescriptor.fromObject(scopeDescriptor)
     @scopedSettingsStore.getProperties(scopeDescriptor.getScopeChain(), keyPath)
 
 # Base schema enforcers. These will coerce raw input into the specified type,
diff --git a/src/scope-descriptor.coffee b/src/scope-descriptor.coffee
index 70dc6598d..7cf64d239 100644
--- a/src/scope-descriptor.coffee
+++ b/src/scope-descriptor.coffee
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # for more information.
 module.exports =
 class ScopeDescriptor
-  @create: (descriptor) ->
+  @fromObject: (descriptor) ->
     if descriptor instanceof ScopeDescriptor
       descriptor
     else