Scientific essentialism, a view espoused by Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, maintains that there exist essential properties that objects possess (or instantiate)...

that kind of thing". The contrary view—non-essentialism—denies the need to posit such an "essence". Essentialism has been controversial from its beginning...

Gender essentialism is a theory which attributes distinct, intrinsic qualities to women and men. Based in essentialism, it holds that there are certain...

designate rigidly. He argues for a form of scientific essentialism not unlike Aristotelian essentialism. Essential properties are common to an object in all...

The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century...

Pure Theory. Melbourne; Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017 Scientific Essentialism. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Social Demand: and How to Provide...

Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species can be subdivided into biologically distinct...

Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Whilst medium essentialism is not merely a subcategory of the Essentialism theory, it is relevant to the notion that certain...

rely on empirical evidence. Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine...

models to visualize the subject. Modelling is an essential and inseparable part of many scientific disciplines, each of which has its own ideas about...