Thus the theoretical rejection of essentialism is matched by an attitudinal embrace of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminism's Identity Crisis] Reference

Be wary of those who ask you to blame your hormones/biology: essentialism is not required here.    From Wordnik.com.  [spiral] Reference

"essentialism" - a belief that there's a deeper nature to things that makes them what they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

I find it, by the way, impossible to tell what Mayr means by 'essentialism'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentialism and Darwin (III)] Reference

So, if people aren't beginning their thinking about 'essentialism' from classification, where are they beginning it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intuitive Essentialism (IV)] Reference

Genealogical studies in general, of which David’s DNA studies are one kind, undermine racial essentialism, which is the foundation of racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » More Interesting DNA Information] Reference

But such 'essentialism' is deeply un-evolutionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana] Reference

This approach is known as 'essentialism'; Jews as either honorary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoopler - middleeast.org] Reference

Bloom argues that an ever-present "essentialism" conditions pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

It's called "essentialism," or the idea that objects are more than just their physical properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Dawkins protests against 'essentialism', but those protests are in vein, no matter that the issue is hopelessly confused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana] Reference

Essay was to argue against Aristotelian essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sortals] Reference

Postmodernism in the arts simply is anti-essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding It at the Movies] Reference

Here, we run into the issue of Aristotelian essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle on Non-contradiction] Reference

A posteriori natural kind essentialism fails in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

And in it, by essentialism, they make this categorical mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009] Reference

A variety of particular forms of essentialism have been advocated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential vs. Accidental Properties] Reference

Why cannot we dare to define conservative essentialism as anti-American?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prominent McCain Supporter: I'm "Absolutely" Concerned That Obama Is Anti-American] Reference

And should so-called maximal essentialism really count as a form of essentialism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential vs. Accidental Properties] Reference

The Kripke-Putnam arguments for essentialism are, in effect, direct appeals to intuition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

To see in some detail how philosophers have gone about defending origin essentialism, see the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential vs. Accidental Properties] Reference

This reflects a geopolitical essentialism; such a view yields little more than thundering clich?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will there be an Afghanistan Syndrome?] Reference

Structuralism has also become popular in metaphysics recently in the form of causal essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structural Realism] Reference

Aristotelian essentialism, if correct, applies to oneself as well as to other things in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle on Non-contradiction] Reference

According to Aristotle, then, those who claim to reject PNC are rejecting Aristotelian essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle on Non-contradiction] Reference

This might give the impression that Kripkean essentialism is no more than the necessity of identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

The first example is a brand of sortal essentialism while the second is a brand of origin essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential vs. Accidental Properties] Reference

Twitter's stripped-down essentialism shares some of the DNA of the observational eye behind Penn's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life] Reference

Just how strong this essentialism is has been the subject of debate among scholars of Leibniz's thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference

In still other words, this type of essentialism about natural kinds does not entail sortal essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential vs. Accidental Properties] Reference

Importantly, though, one can claim that death is a natural kind without accepting any kind of essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Definition of Death] Reference

Such sexually dynamic imagery challenges feminine stereotypes, but also raises complex questions about essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy Chicago.] Reference

Note that a thoroughgoing Fregean descriptivism also has metaphysical consequences, since it rules out essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

This a legitimate thought, lest one be forced into some form of “mereological essentialism” (Chisholm 1973, 1976).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

By offering a form of "portable localism," a strategic essentialism, the poem traverses the general and the particular.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

We will refer to the combination of this principle and mereological essentialism as the thesis of mereological constancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Material Constitution] Reference

If one were to assume that ˜H2O™ is a rigid designator, one might be accused of tacitly assuming metaphysical essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

LaPorte (2004) argues that essentialism holds with respect to facts relating individuals, species, and other taxa to the higher taxa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

One may suspect that, if applied to the trans-temporal case, Kripke's reasoning will yield an argument for mereological essentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relative Identity] Reference

Moreover, in terms of differences among women, the problem of essentialism is not in fact transcended, but is merely moved to other levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Feminism] Reference