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British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2022 Essentialism can be defined as a metaphysical theory according to which things have essential and accidental properties. In this paper, I will address Avicennian essentialism, that is, essentialism as we find it in Avicenna’s own writings and the ...
Fedor Benevich
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Relationship Between Ethnic Essentialism and Psychological Compatibility: Roles of Ethnic Identity and Self-Construal [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesWe examined the impact of ethnic essentialism on psychological compatibility among minority and Han Chinese college students and investigated the roles of ethnic identity and self-construal.
Jiani He +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Most research links (racial) essentialism to negative intergroup outcomes. We propose that this conclusion reflects both a narrow conceptual focus on biological/genetic essence and a narrow research focus from the perspective of racially dominant groups.
Nur Soylu Yalcinkaya +2 more
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Haecceitism and Essentialism: Identity and Distingtion [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Essentialism and Haecceitism are theories to explain the issue of individuality in objects. Some philosophers consider these two schools of philosophy to be one, and others oppose this idea.
Meysam Ghaeidvand +1 more
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Essentialism and Self-Identity Construction in Toni Morrison’s “Sula”-Take Sula and Shadrack as an Example [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 From around the end of the First World War to the mid-1960s, as the voices of the exploited and oppressed black groups were drowned out by white supremacist ideas, black people generally suffered from racial discrimination, and the stereotypes brought ...
Zhang Hanwen
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Ending genetic essentialism through genetics education
HGG Advances, 2022 Summary: Genetic concepts are regularly used in arguments about racial inequality. This review summarizes research about the relationship between genetics education and a particular form of racial prejudice known as genetic essentialism.
Brian M. Donovan
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The Relationship between Cultural Anxiety and Ethnic Essentialism: The Mediating Role of an Endorsement of Multicultural Ideology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Many studies have explored the social consequences of ethnic essentialism in recent decades. In addition, a few studies have focused on the impact of perceived cultural context on ethnic essentialism.
Xiao-li Yang +6 more
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Metacognitive regulation of essentialism in the teaching of evolution [PDF]
, 2022 Essentialism is a way of reasoning that implies assuming that the members of a group share an immutable essence, and that the variation among the members of the group is negligible.
Gonzalez Galli, Leonardo Martin +2 more
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Karl Popper and the Problem of Essentialism in Philosophy
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022 In modern philosophy, essentialism is in most cases regarded as an outdated and, in fact, incorrect philosophical trend. And one of the scientists who created such a reputation of essentialism was the famous English philosopher of Austrian origin Karl ...
Alexey V. Antonov
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Exposure to Literary Fiction Is Associated With Lower Psychological Essentialism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We investigated the impact of exposure to literary and popular fiction on psychological essentialism. Exposure to fiction was measured by using the Author Recognition Test, which allows us to separate exposure to authors of literary and popular fiction ...
Emanuele Castano +4 more
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