Refimprove date August 2008 Confusing date August 2007 In philosophy , essentialism is the view that, for any ...?id qzhJ3KpLpQUC&pg PA275&dq essentialism definition&lr &cd 3 v onepage&q essentialism 20definition ... ref In simple terms, essentialism is a generalization stating that certain properties possessed ... statement all human beings are mortal . According to essentialism, a member of a specific ... 24, 2003 . ref This view is contrasted with non essentialism , which states that, for any given kind of entity, there are no specific traits which entities of that kind must possess. Essentialism came ... term Philosophical realism realism into essentialism and realism . He uses essentialism whenever ... The Open Society and its Enemies , passim. ref Metaphysical essentialismEssentialism, in its broadest ..., the order of which is determined by the principle of causality. Because Essentialism is a conceptual ... all seen fit to advance their disparate and sundry causes under the banner of Essentialism. Possibly ... , who wrote Essentialism is most commonly understood as a belief in the real, true essence of things ... Fuss, Diana . Essentially Speaking 1989 ISBN 978 0415901321 ref Metaphysical essentialism stands ... objectivism. In psychology Essentialism has emerged as an important concept in psychology, particularly developmental psychology . Here, theorists distinguish between metaphysical essentialism see above and psychological essentialism, the latter referring not to an actual claim about the world .... ref Gelman, S. The essential child Origins of essentialism in everyday thought . New York Oxford ... psychologists have argued that essentialism underlies our understanding of the physical and social ... . 23 8 , 3. ref In ethics Classical Essentialism claims that some things are wrong in an absolute sense ... Morphologists were very far from being essentialists, and it appears that the so called essentialism ... 400. ref Essentialism and society and politics copyedit section date January 2011 Main Identity ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Wikify date December 2009 Scientific essentialism , a view espoused by Saul Kripke , maintains that there exist essential properties that objects possess or instantiate necessarily. In other words, having such and such essential properties is a necessary condition for membership in a given natural kind. For example, tigers are tigers in virtue of possessing a particular set of genetic properties, but identifying or appearance based properties are nonessential properties. If a tiger lost a leg, or didn t possess stripes, we would still call it a tiger. They are not necessary for being a member of the class of tigers. It is important, however, that the set of essential properties of an object not be used to identify or be identified with that object because they are not necessary and sufficient , but only necessary. Having such and such a genetic code does not suffice for being a tiger. We wouldn t call a piece of tiger fur a tiger, even though a piece of tiger fur contains the genetic information essential to being a tiger. The most recent advocate of Scientific Essentialism is Brian Ellis, who published a book with that title in 2007. His book The Philosophy of Nature A Guide to the New Essentialism provides an introduction to the subject. DEFAULTSORT Scientific Essentialism Category Philosophy of science Category Contemporary philosophy Category Essentialism ... more details
Mereological essentialism is the view that objects have their parts essentially. If mereological essentialism ... essentialism is a philosophical thesis about the relationship between wholes and its parts, and the conditions for their persistence. Definition The above statement of mereological essentialism is vague ...? It is most common to take mereological essentialism as a thesis about concrete material objects .... A proposition , or thought, if mereological essentialism is true, has its parts essentially the concepts that make up the proposition are essential to it. Second, mereological essentialism can ... . Mereological essentialism for enduring objects objects that persist by being wholly ... essentialism for perduring objects objects that are spread out with parts both in space ...? The usual way to spell out essentiality is by necessity or possible worlds. Mereological essentialism ... in every possible world, in which the object exists. Contenders Mereological essentialism is a position ... have thought mereological essentialism to be true before the 20th century, Peter Abelard and Gottfried ... the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, defend mereological essentialism for perduring objects. Arguments for There are several arguments for mereological essentialism. Some are more formal and others take mereological essentialism as solutions to philosophical puzzles or paradoxes ... would be the opposite of mereological essentialism? It would be that objects would survive the loss ... essentialism Chisholm 1973 . Deon and Theon argument Imagine a person called Deon. He has .... If the world is made only of stuff, mereological essentialism must be true. The argument from a world ... s clear arguments against mereological essentialism have not yet been raised. The most common counterargument is that mereological essentialism entails that an object which undergoes a subtle change ... gets a flat tire and I then replace the tire, mereological essentialism entails that it is not the same ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 POV check date December 2007 In philosophy , non essentialism is the belief that any given entity or subject cannot be propositionally defined in terms of specified values or characteristics, which that entity must have in order to be defined as that entity. For example, humanists have an idea of what the essence of being human is there are specific traits which make something human. This is an essentialist theory. A non essentialist theory of humanity would believe that there are no essences or traits that make something human for example, Sartre s theory of existence precedes essence existence preceding essence . This view is somewhat problematic, however, as an entity not defined by any specific values or characteristics may lack any meaningful existence to an observer. Since entities in the real world are defined by their observers in some way, and in terms of characteristics, it would be impossible for a non essential entity to be found in the real world, though this does not imply that they could not exist in the real world. A non essentialist would argue otherwise though, that it is impossible to find anything that has only its essential characteristics, that since every thing is a particular, that which is accidental is just as important to the particular as what is essential. Non essentialism can also be related to culture. That a person of a culture does not possess all of the traits that are labeled with it. An essentialist view on a culture can lead to racism. See also Essentialism Social constructionism Relativism Existentialism DEFAULTSORT Non Essentialism Category Essentialism Category Metaphysical theories Philosophy stub ... more details
Merge Identity politics date April 2010 Strategic essentialism is a major concept in postcolonial theory . The term was coined by the India n literary critic and literary theory theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak . It refers to a strategy that nationalities, ethnic groups or minority groups can use to present themselves. While strong differences may exist between members of these groups, and amongst themselves they engage in continuous debates, it is sometimes advantageous for them to temporarily essentialize themselves and bring forward their group identity in a simplified way to achieve certain goals. Spivak has said since first introducing the term that she is unhappy with the ways it has been taken up and used. In interviews, she has disavowed the term, although she has not completely deserted the concept itself. The idea also comes up regularly in queer theory and in feminist theory , specifically in the work of Luce Irigaray where it is termed mimesis . External links http www.english.emory.edu Bahri Glossary.html Glossary of Key Terms in the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Michael Kinburn Category Postcolonialism Category Essentialism sv Strategisk essentialism ... more details
refimprove date November 2006 Educational essentialism is an educational philosophy whose adherents belief believe that children should learn the traditional basic subjects thoroughly and rigorously. In this philosophical school of thought, the aim is to instill students with the essentials of academic knowledge, enacting a back to basics approach. Essentialism ensures that the accumulated wisdom of our civilization as taught in the traditional academic disciplines is passed on from teacher to student. Such disciplines might include Reading, Writing, Literature, Foreign Languages, History, Mathematics, Science, Art, and Music. Moreover, this traditional approach is meant to train the mind, promote reasoning, and ensure a common culture. Principles of EssentialismEssentialism is a relatively conservative stance to education that strives to teach students the knowledge of our society and civilization ... Teacher Centered ref Essentialism is the most typically enacted philosophy in American classrooms today ... to the regular assignments and evaluations typical in essentialist education. Essentialism ... tenet of Educational essentialism. The teacher is the center of the classroom, so they should ... to keep order in the classroom. ref http www.excite.com education education essentialism in education ... 1971 ref History of Essentialism The Essentialist movement first began in the United States in the year ... the Essentialist s Platform , in which he outlined three major points of essentialism. He described ... of the disciplines that is at the core of essentialism. The schools do enact a less is more approach ... http essentialschools.org ref . Criticism of Essentialism One of the positive critiques of essentialism is the stability of the education. Because essentialism is relatively conservative and focuses .... However, because Essentialism is largely teacher centered, the role of the student is often called ... squelched. References references Category Philosophy of education Category Essentialism education ... more details
notability date November 2008 Infobox Philosopher box width 300px name Brian David Ellis residence Australia fields Philosophy , History and Philosophy of Science institutions La Trobe University alma mater Adelaide University BR University of Oxford BR La Trobe University awards Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities FAHA Brian Ellis is a Emeritus Professor in the philosophy department at La Trobe University ref http www.latrobe.edu.au philosophy staff.html ref . He is one of the major proponents of the New Essentialist school of philosophy of science philosophy of nature . In The Philosophy of Nature A Guide to the New Essentialism , he groups a number of philosophers into his camp The new essentialism has evolved from these beginnings and can reasonably claim to be a comprehensive philosophy of nature. Philosophers around the world, including Sydney Shoemaker, Charles Martin, George Molnar, George Bealer, John Bigelow, Caroline Lierse, Evan Fales, Crawford Elder, Nicholas Maxwell, Nancy Cartwright and John Heil, have contributed to in various ways to its development. So the new essentialism is not just a personal view, but an emerging metaphysical perspective that is the culmination of many different attempts to arrive at a satisfactory post Humean philosophy of nature. ref p. 7 ref However, this list of claimed allies has been disputed by Stephen Mumford , at least with regard to Shoemaker, Martin, Molnar, Heil and Cartwright. ref Stephen Mumford, Kinds, Essences, Powers Ratio new series XVIII 4 December 2005 , 420 436. ref Selected publications The Philosophy of Nature A Guide to the New Essentialism 2002. ISBN 0773524746 Scientific Essentialism 2001. ISBN 9780521800945 Truth and Objectivity Basil Blackwell, 1991 . ISBN 0631153977 References reflist External links http www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au researcher person3082.html His University of Melbourne Faculty Page http www.latrobe.edu.au philosophy staff briane.htm His La Trobe University Faculty ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Bull Hunter is a book written by Dan Denning , subtitled Tracking Today s Hottest Investments . The main subject of the book is the United States s alleged transformation from republic to empire, although it also discusses such varied themes as the wisdom of the dead and a style of investment the authors term essentialism . It examines emerging countries, sectors, industries, and companies that are just beginning to flourish. References Denning, Dan. The bull hunter tracking today s hottest investments Dan Denning. Hoboken, N.J. Wiley, c2005. x, 225 p. ill. 24 cm. ISBN 0 471 71983 8 DEFAULTSORT Bull Hunter Category Economics books econ book stub ... more details
Empire of Debt is a book written by Bill Bonner author Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, subtitled The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis ref William Bonner and Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis , John Wiley & Sons 2006 , ISBN 0471739022 ref . The authors argue that the United States has transformed from a republic into an empire, although it also discusses such varied themes as the wisdom of the dead and a style of investment the authors term essentialism . The authors sometimes take a lighthearted attitude toward the economic crisis they describe, poking fun at Thomas Friedman and including a humorous glossary at the end of the book with entries like Bill Gates Where God goes for a loan. References reflist 1 Category Economics books ... more details
Wiktionary Essential or essentials can refer to An essential property , which defines an entity as being a particular type of entity. See also essentialism , the philosophical view that an entity must have certain characteristics in order to belong to a certain defined group, and its counterpart, non essentialism Essentials of Fire Fighting , a firefighter training manual published by the International Fire Service Training Association and Fire Protection Publications The Essential Marvel Comics line of reprints In measure theory mathematics , essentially describes properties that hold almost everywhere In biology, an essential biology essential part of an organism is a part which the organism cannot live or reproduce without In music The Essentials are a Canadian acappella group The Essential series of compilation albums released by Sony BMG Either of two companies named Essential Records Essential Divinyls album Essential Divinyls album , an album by the Divinyls Essential Pet Shop Boys album Essential Pet Shop Boys album , an album by Pet Shop Boys Essentials The Cars album Essentials The Cars album , an album by The Cars Essentials , an album by Travis Tritt Essentials Atomic Kitten album Essentials Atomic Kitten album , an album by Atomic Kitten Other Microsoft Security Essentials , an antivirus software product created by Microsoft See also Tommy Grandieri is Essential to Linc 2.0 Essence disambig de Essenziell ko it Essential ja ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Philosophy and Social Hope title orig translator image Image Rortyimage.jpg 220px image caption author Richard Rorty cover artist country USA language English language English series genre Political philosophy , culture , literary criticism publisher Penguin Group release date 1999 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages 288 isbn ISBN 9780140262889 dewey 191 21 congress B945.R521 R67 1999 oclc 41311603 preceded by followed by Philosophy and Social Hope is a 1999 book written by philosopher Richard Rorty and published by Penguin Group Penguin . The book is a collection of cultural and political essay s intended to reach a wider audience and, like his previous books, it presents Rorty s own version of pragmatism . Trotsky and the Wild Orchid s is the most autobiographical piece and explains how he moved from Plato s philosophical framework towards Wittgenstein s and Dewey s anti essentialism . External links MediaFire http www.mediafire.com ?4m1zkocjomn Richard Rorty Philosophy and Social Hope LibraryThing http www.librarything.com work 1160575 Philosophy and Social Hope http www.american philosophy.org ... Green SummerInstituteinAmericanPhilosophy2008.doc American Philosophy Pragmatism and Social Hope Category 1999 books Category Books by Richard Rorty Category Penguin Books books philo book stub ... more details
Refimprove date November 2008 Thomas McKay is an American philosophy philosopher currently Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Philosophy of Syracuse University . He was chairman of the Department there from 1995 2002. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1969, his M.A. from University of Massachusetts in 1972, and his Ph.D., also from the University of Massachusetts, 1974, for a dissertation on Essentialism and Quantified Modal Logic Quine s Argument and Kripke s Semantics His work has primarily concerned the philosophy of logic and language. In 2006, Oxford University Press published his book, Plural Predicates a, in which he gives an account of a semantics for a plural logic. In particular he develops a Russellian account of plural definite descriptions. He is also the author of the following textbooks Modern Formal Logic Macmillan, 1989 second edition, Thomson, 2006 , Reasons, Explanations and Decisions Wadsworth, 2000 and the following journal articles Essentialism in Quantified Modal Logic, Journal of Philosophical Logic 4 1975 , 423 438. Counterfactuals with Disjunctive Antecedents, with Peter van Inwagen, Philosophical Studies 31 1977 , 353 356. The Principle of Predication, Journal of Philosophical Logic 7 1978 , 19 26. Natural Kind Terms and Standards of Membership, with Cindy Stern, Linguistics and Philosophy 3 1979 , 27 34. On Proper Names in Belief Ascriptions, Philosophical Studies 39 1981 , 287 303. On Showing Invalidity, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14 1984 , 97 100. Critical Review of Michael Devitt s Designation, No s 18 1984 , 357 367. Actions and De Re Beliefs, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14 1984 , 631 635. On Critical Thinking, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring Summer 1985, 19 20. His Burning Pants, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 27 1986 , 393 400. Lowe and Baldwin on Modalities, Mind 95 1986 , 499 505. he himself Undiscovering an Anaphor, Li ... more details
Susan Gelman is a Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan . Her research focuses on the topics of cognitive development , language acquisition , categorization , inductive reasoning , causal reasoning , and relationships between language and thought. Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, asserting that the mind is composed of specialized modularity of mind modules subserving specific cognitive functions. Education and Awards Gelman received a Bachelor of Arts B.A. in psychology and Greek language classical Greek from Oberlin College in 1980 and a Ph.D. in psychology with a minor in linguistics from Stanford University in 1984, since which time she has been employed at University of Michigan. Her research has been recognized by several awards including the James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship 2007 2008 , the American Psychological Foundation Robert L. Fantz Award 1992 , and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association 2005 for http www.amazon.com dp 0195181980 The Essential Child . Representative Publications Gelman, S. A., Taylor, M G., and Nguyen, S. 2004 . Mother child conversations about gender Understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Volume 69, No. 1. Gelman, S. A. 2003 . The essential child Origins of essentialism in everyday thought. New York Oxford University Press. Gelman, S. A., and Bloom, P. 2000 . Young children are sensitive to how an object was created when deciding what to name it. Cognition, 76, 91 103. Gelman, S. A. 2000 . The role of essentialism in children s concepts. In H. W. Reese Ed. , Advances in child development and behavior, Vol. 27 pp. 55 98 . San Diego Academic Press. Gelman, S. A., and Heyman, G. D. 1999 . Carrot eaters and creature believers The effects of lexicalization on children s inferences about social categories. Psychological Science, 10, 489 493. E ... more details
sources date December 2007 Ethnicity theory says that race is a social category and is but one of several factors in determining ethnicity. Some other criteria include religion, language, customs, nationality, and political identification Omi & Winant 15 . This theory was put forth by sociologist Robert E. Park in the 1920s. It is based on the notion of culture . This theory was preceded by over a century where biological essentialism was the dominant paradigm on race. Biological essentialism is the belief that white European races are biologically superior and other non white races are inherently inferior. This view arose as a way to justify slavery of Africans and genocide of the Native Americans in a society which was supposedly founded on freedom for all. This was a notion that developed slowly and came to be a preoccupation of scientists, theologians, and the public. Religious institutions asked questions about whether there had been multiple genesis s polygenesis and whether God had created lesser races of men. Many of the foremost scientists of the time took up idea of racial difference. They would inadvertently find that white Europeans were superior. One method that was used was the measurement of cranial capacity. Omi Winant 58 Ethnicity theory was based on the assimilation model. Park outlined his four steps to assimilation contact, conflict, accommodation, and assimilation. Instead of explaining the marginalized status of people of color in the United States with an inherent biological inferiority, he instead said that it was a failure to assimilate into American culture that held people back. They could be equal as long as they dropped their culture which was deficient compared to white culture. Michael Omi and Howard Winant s theory of racial formation directly confronts both ethnicity theory s premises and practices. They argue in Racial Formation in the United States that ethnicity theory was exclusively based on the immigration patterns of a white e ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 Wiktionary In Scholasticism scholastic philosophy , quiddity IPAc en icon k w d t i Latin quidditas was another term for the essence of an object, literally its whatness, or what it is. The term derives from the Latin word quidditas, which was used by the medieval Scholastics as a literal translation of the equivalent term in Aristotle s Greek. It describes properties that a particular substance e.g. a person shares with others of its kind. The question what quid is it? asks for a general description by way of commonality. This is quiddity or whatness i.e., its what it is . Quiddity was often contrasted by the Scholasticism scholastic philosophers with the haecceity or thisness of an item, which was supposed to be a positive characteristic of an individual that caused them to be this individual, and no other. Thomism Other senses In law, the term is used to refer to a quibble or academic point. An example can be seen in Hamlet s graveside speech found in Hamlet by William Shakespeare . Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures says Hamlet referring to a lawyer s quiddities. Quiddity is the name for the mystical dream sea in Clive Barker s novel The Great and Secret Show that exists as a higher plane of human existence. It is featured as more of a literal sea in the novel s sequel, Everville and the related short story, On Amen s Shore . See also Essence Haecceity Ousia Substance theory Category Metaphysics Category Essentialism Philo stub de Quidditas es Quididad sk Quidditas fi Mikyys ja t myys ... more details
original research date February 2011 unreferenced date February 2011 Refimprove date May 2007 A community of place or place based community is a community of people who are bound together because of where they reside, work, visit or otherwise spend a continuous portion of their time. Such a community can be a neighborhood , town , coffeehouse , wiktionary Workplace workplace , gathering place , public space or any other geographically specific place that a number of people share, have in common or visit frequently. Criticisms There has been much criticism within urban planning , geography and urban design about whether concepts such as community , place and therefore place based communities are wholly positive phenomena. Notions of community tend to require the creation of members and non members. Place can be used in an Essentialism essentialising way that stereotype s and fixes place identity , limiting change. Linking the two concepts together reinforces beliefs that certain territories and people belong together, giving the right to exclude others on the basis of age, class, sexuality, ethnicity and other perceived deviations from a given community standard. A proliferating example of these negative tendencies related to ideas about community and place, manifest through urban design , are gated communities . cn date February 2011 See also Social geography Urban planning local community Neighbourhood character Place identity Sense of community Related to Community of action Community of circumstance Community of inquiry Community of interest Community of position Community of practice Community of purpose Category Community Category Types of communities Category Human geography Category Civil society Category Architecture Category Urban studies and planning socio stub ... more details
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Postcolonial Theory and the Arab Israeli Conflict is a 2008 book edited by Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson Divine and published by Routledge Press. The book is based on the proceedings of a conference on Postcolonial Theory and the Middle East held at Case Western Reserve University in 2005. ref www.spme.net cgi bin articles.cgi?ID 2787 ref The essays were first published in a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs . ref http www.spme.net cgi bin articles.cgi?ID 2787 ref The book contains the following essays Irfan Khawaja Essentialism, Consistency, and Islam A Critique of Edward Said s Orientalism Ronald Niezen Postcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination Ed Morgan professor Ed Morgan Orientalism and the Foreign Sovereign Today I am a Man of Law Laurie Zoloth Mistaken ness and the Nature of the Post The Ethics and the Inevitability of Error in theoretical Work Herbert Lewis The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or Can the Anthropologist Speak? Gerald M. Steinberg Postcolonial theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies Efraim Karsh The Missing Piece Islamic Imperialism David Cook author David Cook The Muslim Man s Burden Muslim Intellectuals Confront their Imperialist Past Andrew Bostom Negating the Legacy of Jihad in Palestine Philip Carl Salzman Arab Culture and Postcolonial Theory Richard Landes Edward Said and the Culture of Honour and Shame Orientalism and our Misperceptions of the Arab Israeli Conflict Gideon Shimoni Postcolonial Theory and the History of Zionism S. Ilan Troen De Judaising the Homeland Academic Politics in Re Writing the History of Palestine Donna Robinson Divine The Middle East Conflict and its Postcolonial Discontents Irwin J. Mansdorf The Political Psychology of Postcolonial Ideology in the Arab World an analysis of Occupation and the Right of Return References reflist Category 2008 books Category Books about the Middle East Category Books about the Israeli Palestinian conflict Category Political books Categ ... more details
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For other types of typology Typology disambiguation In archaeology a typology is the result of the Categorization classification of things according to their characteristics. The products of the classification, i.e. the classes are also called types. Most archaeological typologies organize Artifact archaeology artifacts into types, but typologies of houses or roads belonging to a certain culture may be set up as well. A typology helps to manage a large mass of archaeological data. According to Doran and Hodson 1975, p. 158 ref Doran, J.E. and Hodson, F.R. 1975 . Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology . Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0 85224 250 6. ref , this superficially straightforward task has proved one of the most time consuming and contentious aspects of archaeological research . Philosophical background Typology is based on a view of the world familiar from Plato s metaphysics called essentialism . Essentialism is the idea that world is divided into real, discontinuous and immutable kinds . This idea is the basis for most typological constructions, particularly of stone artefacts where essential forms are often thought of as mental templates , or combinations of traits that are favoured by the maker. Variation in artifact form and attributes is seen as a consequence of the imperfect realization of the template, and is usually attributed to differences in raw material properties or individuals technical competences. History In the 19th and early 20th centuries archaeological typologies were usually constructed using a combination of empirical observation and intuition. According to Eggers ref Eggers, Hans J rgen 1986 . Einf hrung in die Vorgeschichte . M nchen Piper Verlag, pp.88 95. ISBN 3 492 00393 1 ref , most archaeologists give Oscar Montelius the credit for the first application of the typological method, but in Eggers view, his contemporary colleague from Stockholm, Hans Hildebrand made important contributions to the development of the met ... more details
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