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Narayan, Uma. "Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism." Hypatia 13, no. 2 (1998): 86–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1998.tb01227.x.

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Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” and “Third World” cultures.

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Lewicka, Maria. "Essentialism in Environmental Psychology: Controversies and Evidence." Roczniki Psychologiczne 24, no. 3-4 (2021): 361–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rpsych21242-2s.

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This paper deals with the issue of psychological essentialism as present in environmental studies. The essentialist belief—that is, the assumption that things have a deep essence that defines their stable identity—has been a recurring theme in environmental psychology. In this paper, I show its relevance for such research areas as environmental perception and the concept of place as a meaningful location. I show that essentialism underlies early phenomenological theories of place and is present in contemporary biophilic theories of environmental perception. I discuss relevant theories and pres

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Yao, Donna J., Melody M. Chao, and Angela K. y. Leung. "When Essentialism Facilitates Intergroup Conflict Resolution: The Positive Role of Perspective-Taking." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 50, no. 4 (2019): 483–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022119835058.

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Essentialism, a fundamental belief of the fixedness of social group essences, is often associated with negative intergroup outcomes. However, research is yet to explore the role of essentialism in intergroup conflicts, despite their prevalence. To address this gap, we conducted the first direct examination on how essentialism influences conflict management toward out-group members. Moreover, we examined perspective-taking as a positive factor in improving conflict management among essentialist individuals relative to their non-essentialist counterparts in intergroup contexts. Results across th

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Mandalaywala, Tara M., David M. Amodio, and Marjorie Rhodes. "Essentialism Promotes Racial Prejudice by Increasing Endorsement of Social Hierarchies." Social Psychological and Personality Science 9, no. 4 (2017): 461–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550617707020.

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Why do essentialist beliefs promote prejudice? We proposed that essentialist beliefs increase prejudice toward Black people because they imply that existing social hierarchies reflect a naturally occurring structure. We tested this hypothesis in three studies ( N = 621). Study 1 revealed that racial essentialism was associated with increased prejudice toward Blacks among both White and Black adult participants, suggesting that essentialism relates to prejudice according to social hierarchy rather than only to group membership. Studies 2 and 3 experimentally demonstrated that increasing essenti

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Hussein, Jeylan Wolyie. "Examining the nature of defensively situated politics of difference, identity and essentialism in Ethiopia: A critical engagement." International Area Studies Review 19, no. 4 (2016): 340–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2233865916666763.

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The paper presents an analysis of and challenges to various dimensions of defensively situated essentialisms about nation, people and identities in Ethiopia, examining the political, social and ideological underpinnings of essentialist perceptions and assessing their limitations. The author’s central argument is that limitations in essentialist positions and perspectives held about the meaning of nation, state and ethnic identity can be improved if a more context-sensitive and critical approach is adopted. The paper concludes with suggestions on what can and should be done to prevent essential

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Zachar, Peter. "The Psychological Construction of Emotion – A Non-Essentialist Philosophy of Science." Emotion Review 14, no. 1 (2021): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17540739211058715.

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Advocates for the psychological construction of emotion view themselves as articulating a non-essentialist alternative to basic emotion theory's essentialist notion of affect programs. Psychological constructionists have also argued that holding essentialist assumptions about emotions engenders misconceptions about the psychological constructionist viewpoint. If so, it is important to understand what psychological constructionists mean by “essentialism” and “non-essentialism.” To advance the debate, I take a deeper dive into non-essentialism, comparing the non-essentialist views of the early e

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Rocca, Michael Della. "Essentialists and Essentialism." Journal of Philosophy 93, no. 4 (1996): 186–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2940887.

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Teles, Manuela. "The rule W: Wittgenstein and the concept woman." Wittgenstein-Studien 15, no. 1 (2024): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/witt-2024-0008.

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Abstract I address some issues on the concept woman that might illuminate both feminist thought and practice, and the interpretation of Wittgenstein. Using Sonia Sedivy’s New Wittgensteinian approach to accuse Neo-Wittgensteinians and their critics of still being essentialists about the concept art, I point out that Cressida Heyes’ Wittgensteinian anti-anti-essentialism concerning the concept woman is subject to the same accusation. Heyes suggests that, in the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein provides feminist philosophers with a kind of anti-anti-essentialism based on which a dilemm

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Fuss, Diana J. "“Essentially Speaking”: Luce Irigaray's Language of Essence." Hypatia 3, no. 3 (1988): 62–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1988.tb00189.x.

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Luce Irigaray's fearlessness towards speaking the body has earned for her work the dismissive label “essentialist.” But Irigaray's Speculum de l'autre femme and Ce Sexe qui n'en est pas un suggest that essence may not be the unitary, monolithic, in short, essentialist category that anti-essentialists so often presume it to be. Irigaray strategically deploys essentialism for at least two reasons: first, to reverse and to displace Jacques Lacan's phallomorphism; and second, to expose the contradiction at the heart of Aristotelian metaphysics which denies women access to “Essence” while at the sa

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Haslam, Nick. "The essence of essentialism?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 5 (2014): 491–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003750.

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AbstractAs an account of the cognitive processes that support psychological essentialism, the inherence heuristic clarifies the basis of individual differences in essentialist thinking, and how they are associated with prejudice. It also illuminates the contextual variability of social essentialism, and where its conceptual boundaries should be drawn.

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Buhagiar, Luke J., Gordon Sammut, Alessia Rochira, and Sergio Salvatore. "There’s no such thing as a good Arab: Cultural essentialism and its functions concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe." Culture & Psychology 24, no. 4 (2018): 560–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x18763795.

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Concerns about immigration are salient in the European Union and in Malta in particular. Previous research has demonstrated deep antipathy towards the Arab community in Malta, and social representations of Arabs are mired in a conflation of ethnic and religious categories with negative connotations. This paper presents evidence of the potency, within the public sphere, of negative arguments from cultural essentialism, concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe. The data were obtained abductively from a data corpus containing positive, mixed and negative arguments about Arabs and their integ

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Dennehy, Tara C. "Inherence is an aspect of psychological essentialism." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 5 (2014): 486–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003695.

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AbstractInherence is not a distinct construct from psychological essentialism; it is one of several underlying beliefs. I propose that inherence is only one entry point to the perception of an essence and posit that context may influence which aspects of essentialist reasoning precede inferring an essence. I also discuss how psychological essentialism can uniquely account for violations of category-based expectancies.

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Wallner, Michael, and Anand Vaidya. "Essence, Explanation, and Modality." Philosophy 95, no. 4 (2020): 419–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819120000200.

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AbstractRecently, Kit Fine's (1994) view that modal truths are true in virtue of, grounded in, or explained by essentialist truths has been under attack. In what follows we offer two responses to the wave of criticism against his view. While the first response is pretty straightforward, the second is based on the distinction between, what we call, Reductive Finean Essentialism and Non-Reductive Finean Essentialism. Engaging the work of Bob Hale on Non-Reductive Finean Essentialism, we aim to show that the arguments against Fine's view are unconvincing, while we acknowledge the presence of a de

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Rosyidan, Yasir. "FILSAFAT PENDIDIDIKAN ESENSIALISME DAN PERENIALISME." AL-MUTSLA 6, no. 1 (2024): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46870/jstain.v6i1.832.

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Abstract The philosophy known as essentialism advocates a return of humanity to ancient civilizations. According to their beliefs, humanity has benefited greatly from ancient culture. The Essentialist school of thought prioritizes not abandoning cultures that have survived for a long time. Essentialism and permanence have similar properties. During the 13th century AD, perennialism proudly recognized the success of the ideas and thoughts of ancient civilizations, including Greece and the Middle Ages. They believe that the ideas and concepts of these two eras are still valuable today. This appr

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Strevens, Michael. "The causes of characteristic properties: Insides versus categories." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 5 (2014): 502–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003889.

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AbstractCimpian & Salomon (C&S) propose that the inherence heuristic, a tendency to explain the behavior and other properties of things in terms of their intrinsic characteristics, precedes and explains “essentialist thinking” about natural kinds. This commentary reviews evidence that it is rather essentialism (or something like it) that precedes the assumption of inherence, and suggests that essentialism can do without the inherence heuristic altogether.

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Gunardi, Ahmad, and Sry Hartati. "Essentialist Educational Philosophy (Doctrine and Its Influence in the Context of Modern Education)." Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Instructional Media 4, no. 3 (2024): 179–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.52690/jitim.v4i3.818.

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The philosophy of essentialism is a conservative educational philosophy formulated as a critique of progressive educational practices in schools. Essentialists argue that the main function of schools is to convey cultural and historical heritage to the younger generation. Essentialism is not an independent philosophical building, but rather a critique of progressive education. This school of essentialism views that education which is based on the view of flexibility in all its forms can be a source of views that are changing, easy to change, lacking focus, uncertain and unstable.

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Wilton, Leigh S., Ariana N. Bell, Colleen M. Carpinella, Danielle M. Young, Chanel Meyers, and Rebekah Clapham. "Lay Theories of Gender Influence Support for Women and Transgender People’s Legal Rights." Social Psychological and Personality Science 10, no. 7 (2018): 883–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550618803608.

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Essentialism—the belief that differences between groups of people are biologically based and unchangeable—is strongly associated with prejudice toward a variety of social groups. The present work examines how gender essentialism shapes support for the rights of two marginalized gender groups: women and transgender people. Study 1 provides correlational evidence that endorsement of gender essentialism is a robust predictor of people’s opposition to both women’s and transgender people’s rights, over and above other individual difference measures. Studies 2 and 3 provide evidence that exposure to

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Kanovsky, Martin. "Essentialism and Folksociology: Ethnicity Again." Journal of Cognition and Culture 7, no. 3-4 (2007): 241–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853707x208503.

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AbstractThe aim of this article is to show that empirical evidence suggests that no particular causal process of essence acquisition is constitutive for essentialism in folksociology. Innate potential and biological inheritance, however powerful they may be for the human cognitive mind in the domain of folkbiology, are far from necessary in essentialist folksociological classifications. Essentialism in folksociology is not defined by any particular causal process of essence acquisition. Even when we are able to detect the innateness in a particular folksociology, we should always look for othe

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Idawati, Idawati, Al Husnul Khatimah Mz, and Nurul Mawaddah. "Implikasi Filsafat Aliran Esensialisme Dalam Budaya Pendidikan Indonesia Di Sekolah Dasar." Journal on Education 7, no. 2 (2025): 10583–89. https://doi.org/10.31004/joe.v7i2.8106.

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Essentialism is a philosophical school that emphasizes the existence of an essence or essential core in every object, concept, or entity. This school argues that every individual or entity has basic characteristics that determine its identity, which are independent of social context or external changes. Essentialist education includes science, art and everything related to human will. The aim of this research is to determine the influence and implications of essentialism in emphasizing local cultural values, the importance of basic knowledge, and character education which has a positive impact

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Noyes, Alexander, and Frank C. Keil. "Generics designate kinds but not always essences." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 41 (2019): 20354–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900105116.

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People believe that some categories are kinds with reliable causal structure and high inductive potential (e.g., tigers). Widely endorsed theories propose that people are biased to assume kinds are essential, and so naturally determined by internal causal properties. Generic language (e.g., “men like sports”) is 1 mechanism thought to evoke this bias. We propose instead that generics principally designate that categories are kinds. Participants can entertain diverse causal structures in the presence of generics: Hearing that biological properties generalize to a category (e.g., “men grow beard

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Khodadadi, Hossein. "On Aristotelian Essence." Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253 19, no. 3 (2023): 55–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4013/con.2023.193.04.

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The concept of essence holds a pivotal role in unraveling Aristotle’s metaphysical framework. In his exploration of Metaphysics, Aristotle delves into the quest for fundamental being, positing that the primary substance is essentially synonymous with essence. This paper examines the criteria for essence, drawing from both the Categories and Metaphysics Z. Two distinct perspectives on essentialism, namely individual essentialism, aligned with the contemporary modal account of essence, and kind essentialism, are scrutinized. Through a critical analysis, this paper contends that both these essent

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Wheeler, Samuel C. "Quine, Davidson, Relative Essentialism and the Question of Being." Open Philosophy 1, no. 1 (2018): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2018-0009.

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AbstractRelative essentialism, the view that multiple objects about which there are distinct de re modal truths can occupy the same space at the same time, is a metaphysical view that dissolves a number of metaphysical issues. The present essay constructs and defends relative essentialism and argues that it is implicit in some of the ideas of W. V. Quine and Donald Davidson. Davidson’s published views about individuation and sameness can accommodate the common-sense insights about change and persistence of Aristotle and Kripke. Aristotle and Kripke have to give up unmediated direct reference r

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Fong, Lawrence Hoc Nang, Hongwei He, Melody Manchi Chao, Galli Leandro, and David King. "Cultural essentialism and tailored hotel service for Chinese: the moderating role of satisfaction." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 31, no. 9 (2019): 3610–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-11-2018-0910.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand Chinese consumers’ responses to ethnically tailored hotel services from the theoretical perspective of cultural essentialism. Design/methodology/approach Data collection was conducted through an online survey with Chinese respondents. Hierarchical moderated regression was performed to analyze the data. Findings The results show a positive relationship between cultural essentialism and consumer responses to hotel services that are tailored to their culture. Furthermore, the findings show that prior service satisfaction does not only positively

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Grubba, Leilane Serratine, and Valter Moura do Carmo. "ESSENTIALISM AS THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (1969)." Revista da Faculdade Mineira de Direito 26, no. 51 (2023): 138–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2318-7999.2023v26n51p138-151.

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The article focuses on the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), known as the San José Pact of Costa Rica, because of its political and legal importance for protecting and promoting the Americas' rights. The objective is to analyze the consistency of the theoretical foundation of that human rights document. Therefore, we will first analyze the Convention's text and point out essentialism as the philosophical foundation. Then, we will discuss the essentialist assumption philosophically. Finally, the theoretical problem of essentialism as the foundation of the Convention will be analyzed i

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Sharpe, Mary, and Annette Rudel. "Essentialism as a Contributing Factor in Ideological Resonance and Dissonance Between Women and Their Midwives in Ontario, Canada." Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice 8, no. 2 (2024): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22374/cjmrp.v8i2.138.

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The social reform movement that led to the regulation of midwifery care in Ontario benefited from a discourse that tended to essentialize depictions of the woman receiving midwifery care, the midwife and the woman- midwife relationship. The Philosophy of Midwifery Care in Ontario document for women and midwives reflects this history and supports certain essentialist tendencies. Examining the experiences of women and midwives in midwifery care post-legislation through life history qualitative research reveals ways in which this culture persists within contemporary midwifery discourse. However,

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Sepetyi, Dmytro. "Anti-kripkean intuitions: conceptualism versus essentialism." Filosofska dumka (Philosophical Thought) -, no. 1 (2022): 98–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/fd2022.01.098.

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The article discusses Saul Kripke’s criticisms of the account of the reference of general names he called “descriptivism” and the considerations he advanced in favour of his own essentialist causal-historical account of the reference of natural kind terms. The alternative of conceptualism versus essentialism about the reference of general terms is explained in details. The case is made that most of the intuitions on which Kripke based his arguments are highly controversial, and the main examples he used to explain and support his views (such as examples of whales and fish, water and H20, gold,

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Rakoczy, Hannes, and Trix Cacchione. "The developmental and evolutionary origins of psychological essentialism lie in sortal object individuation." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 5 (2014): 500–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003865.

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AbstractCimpian & Salomon (C&S) present promising steps towards understanding the cognitive underpinnings of adult essentialism. However, their approach is less convincing regarding ontogenetic and evolutionary aspects. In contrast to C&S's claim, the so-called inherence heuristic, though perhaps vital in adult reasoning, seems an implausible candidate for the developmental and evolutionary foundations of psychological essentialism. A more plausible candidate is kind-based object individuation that already embodies essentialist modes of thinking and that is present in infants and n

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Dobrynin, Din Kh. "On the Theoretical-methodological Consequences of Essentialism in Definition of Religion and Ethnic Community." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 9 (2021): 163–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-9-163-172.

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The article reveals the theoretical-methodological problems of combining essentialist attitudes in the definitions of religion and ethnic community. Essentialism assumes that an ethnic community has an essence that should be reflected in the theoretical constructions of scientists. At the same time, one of the essential features of an ethnic community is supposed to be the presence of a unique culture, including religion. The essentialist understanding of religion is based either on overly narrow or overly broad definitions of it. The author comes to the conclusion that the simultaneous appe

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Xu, Ping. "Irigaray's Mimicry and the Problem of Essentialism." Hypatia 10, no. 4 (1995): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb00999.x.

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This essay deals with the essentialism controversy concerning Luce Irigaray through looking into her strategic use of mimicry, which has not been fully addressed by her critics. The author argues that what appear to be essentialist elements in Irigaray's writings are in fact the “sites” where she is mimicking the phallogocentric discourse in order to uncover its essentialist and “sexed” nature and at the same time to resist being reabsorbed into its reductive order.

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Franklin, Sarah. "Essentialism, Which Essentialism?" Journal of Homosexuality 24, no. 3-4 (1993): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j082v24n03_02.

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Prentice, Deborah A., and Dale T. Miller. "Psychological Essentialism of Human Categories." Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, no. 4 (2007): 202–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00504.x.

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Psychological essentialism is an ordinary mode of category representation that has powerful social-psychological consequences. This article reviews those consequences, with a focus on the distinctive ways people perceive, evaluate, and interact with members of human categories they essentialize. Why and when people engage in this mode of thinking remain open questions. Variability in essentialism across cultures, categories, and contexts suggests that this mode of representing human categories is rooted in a naturalistic theory of category origins, combined with a need to explain differences t

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We’u, Gregorius, and Agustina Pali. "IMPLEMENTATION OF FLEXIBLE EDUCATION IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF ESSENTIALISM EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY." Jurnal Pendidikan (Teori dan Praktik) 9, no. 2 (2024): 136–41. https://doi.org/10.26740/jp.v9n2.p136-141.

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This research examines the application of essentialism education philosophy in the Indonesian education system which aims to integrate cultural values in learning. Education in Indonesia faces the challenge of creating learners who are not only academically competent but also have character based on cultural values. Essentialism, with its emphasis on the inheritance of cultural values, offers a solution to maintain cultural stability through relevant and flexible education. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, this research examines the ontological, epistemological and axiological views i

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Olivola, Christopher Y., and Edouard Machery. "Is psychological essentialism an inherent feature of human cognition?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 5 (2014): 499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003841.

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AbstractRecent evidence shows that psychological essentialism is neither a universal nor stable feature of human cognition. The extent to which people report essentialist intuitions varies enormously across cultures and education levels, and is also influenced by subtle, normatively irrelevant contextual manipulations. These results challenge the notion that the human mind is “fitted” with a built-in inherence heuristic that produces essentialist intuitions.

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O'Connor, Cliodhna, and Helene Joffe. "The social aetiology of essentialist beliefs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 5 (2014): 498–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1300383x.

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AbstractThis commentary highlights the importance of attending to the sociocultural contexts that foster essentialist ideas. It contends that Cimpian & Salomon's (C&S's) model undervalues the extent to which the development of essentialist beliefs is contingent on social experience. The result is a restriction of the model's applicability to real-world instances of essentialism-fuelled prejudice and discrimination.

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Bartulović, Marija, and Barbara Kušević. "Is It Time (Yet) to Shelve LGBTIQ Topics? The Contextual Adequacy of (De-)Essentialism as an Educational Strategy." Acta Iadertina 19, no. 2 (2023): 169–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/ai.3971.

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The debate on the relationship between queer theory and identity politics, the hitherto dominant research framework with strong application potential, was expanded by establishing queer theory as a starting point for studies examining sexual and gender diversity in education. The point of contention became the question of the purposefulness of strategic essentialism, with a strong emphasis on the many pitfalls of insufficient intersectional understanding of identity, where sexual and gender diversity is but one dimension. Various pitfalls of de essentialism also became the subject of analysis.

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Tabachnick, David Edward. "Heidegger's Essentialist Responses to the Challenge of Technology." Canadian Journal of Political Science 40, no. 2 (2007): 487–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423907070151.

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Abstract.This paper is an effort to defend Heidegger's essentialist philosophy of technology against the charge of determinism. Rather than merely accepting its all-encompassing power, Heidegger provides three responses to the challenge of technology: 1) “aggressive essentialism” or the elimination of technology; 2) “moderate essentialism” or the reform of political, social and cultural institutions to better reflect the changes that technology brings; and 3) “passive essentialism” or the acceptance that we cannot act against or direct technology.Résumé.Dans cet article, l'auteur s'efforce de

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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, Ellen Rooney, and Soledad Tuñón. "En una palabra. <i>Entrevista</i>. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak con Ellen Rooney." Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 88 (April 8, 2024): 101–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7440/res88.2024.06.

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In this interview, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak revisits the debate between essentialism and anti-essentialism by reconsidering various theoretical frameworks she has engaged with over her intellectual journey. These frameworks include deconstruction, Marxism, and feminisms, alongside reflections on the role of philosophy. One key focus of her reflection is the concept of strategic essentialism in understanding social movements, diverging from her previous stances. Spivak suggests viewing it as an ongoing critique of essentialist approaches, emphasizing the importance of maintaining critical, st

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Lipourli, Eleni, and Antonis Gardikiotis. "Representations of refugees: Linguistic abstractness and social perceptions." Psychology: the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society 28, no. 2 (2023): 195–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.31922.

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The paper examines the relationship among stereotype content, essentialism, and preferred language abstraction in refugee media representations. In two studies, participants were asked to choose captions of differential degree of language abstraction (according to the linguistic category model, from descriptive action verbs to adjectives) thought appropriate for an image of refugees, after they first completed a survey on stereotype content (perceived competence and warmth) and essentialist beliefs (Study 2 only) about refugees. In both studies, perceived competence predicted increased languag

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Ilhaam, Saleha. "Reading Identity, Reading Essence: A Strategic Essentialist Approach to Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable." South Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2, no. 4 (2021): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.48165/sajssh.2021.2406.

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The term strategic essentialism, coined by Spivak, is generally understood as “a political strategy whereby differences (within Group) are temporarily downplayed, and unity assumed for the sake of achieving political goals.” On the other hand, essentialism focuses that everything in this world has an intrinsic and immutable essence of its own. The adaption of a particular “nature” of one group of people by way of sexism, culturalization, and ethnification is strongly linked to the idea of essentialism. Mulk Raj Anand’s Bakha is dictated as an outcast by the institutionalized hierarchy of caste

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Tüzel İşeri, Emel, and Sevda Gök. "Examination of Pre-Service Teachers' Educational Philosophy Tendencies." Uluslararası Türk Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 13, no. 1 (2025): 285–319. https://doi.org/10.46778/goputeb.1618282.

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A teacher’s educational philosophy reflects their understanding of education and their value system. Pre-service teachers' educational philosophies constitute an essential component of the education system, shaping the future of education. This study aims to determine pre-service teachers' educational philosophy tendencies (perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism) and to examine these tendencies in terms of the personal variables they possess. The study, conducted in a survey model, included 383 pre-service teachers from eleven different teacher education programs at a

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Dallavalle, Nancy A. "Neither Idolatry nor Iconoclasm: A Critical Essentialism for Catholic Feminist Theology." Horizons 25, no. 1 (1998): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900030711.

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AbstractFollowing the work of gender theorists who find the terms “male” and “female” to be socially constructed, feminist theology has tended to repudiate essentialism. The position that results is one of agnosticism about biological sexuality, a position that is only reinforced by the essentialist excesses that ground the discussion of the “psycho-physical structure” of women found in official Catholic teaching. This article suggests that the polarity of feminist theology and official Catholic teaching on questions of sex and gender can be overcome by using the framework of a “critical essen

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Holliday, Adrian, and Malcolm N. Macdonald. "Researching the Intercultural: Intersubjectivity and the Problem with Postpositivism." Applied Linguistics 41, no. 5 (2019): 621–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz006.

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Abstract In intercultural communication studies, the positivist preoccupation with objectivist, essentialist, solid large cultures has been replaced by a postmodern recognition that the intercultural is liquid and ideologically constructed. However, a postpositivist resistance to this paradigm change, while recognizing the dangers of essentialism, continues to be objectivist and fails to address the intersubjective nature of the ideological construction of culture. This results in a soft essentialism. This methodological failure of postpositivism is driven by a neoliberal technicalized commodi

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Pigalev, Alexander I. "Contextualizing Rosenzweig’s and Levinas’ Notions of the Other by Derrida’s Construal of Difference." RUDN Journal of Philosophy 24, no. 3 (2020): 379–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2302-2020-24-3-379-397.

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The article focuses on juxtaposing the stances of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas on the notion of the Other based on the metaphysical principles of modernity so as to expose the prerequisites for their attitude to metaphysics in whole. The peculiarity of the proposed approach is the analysis of the notions of the Other in Rosenzweig and Levinas from the perspective of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy. The scrutiny proceeds from the assumption that the national philosophies, having been considered as the specific response to the effects of the encounter of societies to be modernized with the

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Bauer, William A. "Dispositional Essentialism and the Nature of Powerful Properties." Disputatio 5, no. 35 (2013): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2013-0001.

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Abstract Dispositional essentialism maintains that all sparse properties are essentially powerful. Two conceptions of sparse properties appear compatible with dispositional essentialism: sparse properties as pure powers or as powerful qualities. This paper compares the two views, criticizes the powerful qualities view, and then develops a new theory of pure powers, termed Point Theory. This theory neutralizes the main advantage powerful qualities appear to possess over pure powers—explaining the existence of powers during latency periods. The paper discusses the relation between powers and spa

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Null, J. Wesley. "William C. Bagley and the Founding of Essentialism: An Untold Story in American Educational History." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 109, no. 4 (2007): 1013–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810710900408.

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Background/Context Most people who study the history and philosophy of education have heard of essentialism, but few people know the story behind how, when, and why the movement came to exist. This paper tells this story for the first time. Purpose/Conclusions This essay has three purposes. First, it provides an introduction to the life and career of William Chandler Bagley, a prominent professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1917 until his retirement in 1939. Following an introduction to Bagley's life, this work describes the founding of essentialism by drawing u

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Messner, Michael. "Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism." Sociology of Sport Journal 28, no. 2 (2011): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.28.2.151.

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By the mid-Twentieth Century in the U.S., a dominant ideology of natural, categorical differences between women and men was an organic part of the unequal distribution of women and men into domestic and public realms, especially in middle class families. Sport was a key site for the naturalization of this ideology, which I call “hard essentialism.” Since the 1970s, an explosion of female athletic participation mirrored the movement of women into the professions, leading scholars to examine sport as a terrain of contested gender relations. This paper extends that discussion by positing a four-p

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McFee, Graham. "What Ever Happened to Anti-Essentialism?" Aesthetic Investigations 2, no. 2 (2019): 196–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v2i2.11968.

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How should one explain the relative disappearance of a major preoccupation of English-speaking Analytical Philosophy in the late 1950s/early 1960s: an anti-essentialist response to the question, ‘What is art?’, typified in papers by Kennick and Weitz? Minimally, anti-essentialism denies the widely-held assumption that something must be in common between all the instances where (in our case) the term “[fine] art” or the concept art is rightly ascribed, in virtue of which all are called ‘art’; a stronger version urges that, in fact, there is no essence to (our example) art.

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van Gerven, Dylan J. J., Anne M. Land-Zandstra, and Welmoet Damsma. "From Hitler’s Sweater to Dinosaur Fossils: An Essentialist Outlook on Authenticity." Review of General Psychology 23, no. 3 (2019): 371–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1089268019858276.

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Over the past two decades, the concept of authenticity has been the subject of considerable disagreement and debate. Although there have been attempts at reconciling various existing approaches, the literature is still short on a definition that is both practical and precise. This article proposes to make significant headway to that effect by suggesting that authenticity can be accounted for by an underlying psychological phenomenon known as essentialism. In making our case, we first provide an overview of present-day objectivist and constructivist positions and point out their shortcomings, a

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Moser, Paul K. "Essentialism." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66, no. 1 (1992): 108–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq199266151.

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Yzerbyt, Vincent, Olivier Corneille, and Claudia Estrada. "The Interplay of Subjective Essentialism and Entitativity in the Formation of Stereotypes." Personality and Social Psychology Review 5, no. 2 (2001): 141–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0502_5.

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In line with our subjective essentialist view of stereotypes (Yzerbyt, Rocher, & Schadron, 1997), we propose that two classes of factors that mutually reinforce each other influence the perception of groups. The perception of a strong level of similarity and organization among group members (i.e., group entitativity) suggests the existence of a deep essence that would account for the detected regularities. Conversely, the existence of naïve theories regarding the presence of an underlying core encourages the search for resemblances and connections within the group. After a short presentati

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