“I am only what I make myself to be”, Fichte tells us. In this paper, outline Fichte’s views on sex, marriage and gender, with two aims. Firstly, elucidate an aspect of his moral theory which has received little attention, secondly argue that distinctive stance selfhood, freedom, normativity lead a revisionary account gender expression identity, where people can freely carve out their own irres...

The debate on the relationship between queer theory and identity politics, hitherto dominant research framework with strong application potential, was expanded by establishing as a starting point for studies examining sexual gender diversity in education. of contention became question purposefulness strategic essentialism, emphasis many pitfalls insufficient intersectional understanding identit...

Psychological essentialism is the hypothesis that humans represent some categories as having an underlying essence unifies members of a category and causally responsible for their typical attributes behaviors. Throughout past several decades, psychological has emerged extremely active area research in cognitive science. More recently, it also attracted attention from philosophers, who put empir...

The article discusses Saul Kripke’s criticisms of the account reference general names he called “descriptivism” and considerations advanced in favour his own essentialist causal-historical natural kind terms. alternative conceptualism versus essentialism about terms is explained details. case made that most intuitions on which Kripke based arguments are highly controversial, main examples used ...