1 Grasping Properties I will present an argument for property dualism. The argument employs a distinction between having a concept of a property and grasping a property via a concept. If you grasp a property P via a concept C, then C is a concept of P. But the reverse does not hold: you may have a concept of a property without grasping that property via any concept. If you grasp a property, the...

Categorizations of multiracial individuals provide insight into the psychological mechanisms driving social stratification, but few studies have explored the interplay of cognitive and motivational underpinnings of these categorizations. In the present study, we integrated research on racial essentialism (i.e., the belief that race demarcates unobservable and immutable properties) and negativit...

Historians of science have pointed to essentialist beliefs about species as a major impediment to the discovery of natural selection. The present study investigated whether such beliefs are an impediment to learning this concept as well. Participants (43 children aged four to nine and 34 adults) were asked to judge the variability of various behavioral and anatomical properties across different...

Postcolonialism, in recent years, tends to subvert dominant ideological discourses order dismantle the Eurocentric epistemological constructions. In this context, Postcolonialism engages itself with Marxism as a metanarrative, speculative Other. contest Western hegemony, intersects Postmodernism unified skepticism and hence, maintain notion of difference within emancipation. The study deals Tar...

In this paper, I show how some strands of contemporary Western scholarship in Albanian studies reproduce substantive empirical and methodological flaws perpetuate imperial attitudes othering stereotypes. particular, level a number criticisms at what refer to as the New German-speaking School Balkankompetenzen that has colonized more generally Southeastern European issues. argue disregard patron...

Some language encourages essentialist thinking. While philosophers have largely focused on generics and essentialism, I argue that nouns as a category are poised to refer kinds promote representational essentializing. Our psychological propensity essentialize when used reveals limitation for antiessentialist ameliorative projects. Even ameliorated can continue underpin conclude by arguing essen...