Seriously though, those who profess to save animals are actually "essentialists" - that is, that they believe that the animals have a nature and that when a whale beaches itself it must be sick and need to be saved and assisted to return to its natural state. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yet it is worth noting Bourdieu's position in relation to each of these "essentialists," whether or not Kant or Foucault deserves such a characterization. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And, the pantheist and theist are not the only kind of essentialists for whom consequences and relations matter. ❋ Levine, Michael (2007)
The male studies people, on the other had, are what their critics call "essentialists" and believe that male behavior is in large part biologically determined. ❋ By CHARLES McGRATH (2011)
Which biological determinists and essentialists of all stripes do NOT want to admit is the case -- especially all those among us obsessed with "masculinity" as if it has authentic biological reality, instead of being a pathological cultural construct in the midst of epic fail. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Here's an interesting account that brings us up to date: "Today, the debate is still between essentialists and constructionists, but the essentialists have become evolutionary and the constructionists have become social." ❋ Unknown (2009)
To call * us* essentialists, stupid boys who mistake the trappings of femininity for being female. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In that book Badinter mounted a critique of one group of feminist activists, essentialists, who saw women as unalterably different from men. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The essay by Kimura will infuriate you, as will several others, but at least you'll get a clear sense of the position of the biological essentialists and the data they are using to bolster their positions (it's quite weak and easy to dismantle, in my opinion). ❋ Peggy (2007)
Indeed, psychologists studying the development of language tell us that children are natural essentialists. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
Some anti-essentialists argue that there is no non-question begging way of motivating the appeal to essences ❋ Bird, Alexander (2008)
In Major Trends he navigates a position between the essentialists and the pure constructivist position. ❋ Magid, Shaul (2008)
The therapists supporting a child's transition early, I have characterized them in a half serious way as liberal essentialists. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
Natural kind essentialists hold that natural kinds have essences (Ellis 2001, 2002, 2005). ❋ Bird, Alexander (2008)
But just keep in mind that your opinions are among the very reasons that many feminists see trans as essentialists and as not feminist. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They are actually cultural feminists and are essentialists. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Bean, you may see most transpeople as essentialists. ❋ Unknown (2007)
