In Defense of Platonic Essentialism about Numbers

In Defense of Essentialism

Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy

The heated feminist debates over 'essentialism' of the 1980s and early 1990s have largely died away, yet they raised fundamental questions for feminist moral and political philosophy which have still to be fully explored. Centrally at issue in feminist controversies over essentialism was whether there are any shared characteristics common to all women, which unify them as a group. Many leading ...

About k-perfect numbers

ABSTRACT. In this paper we present some results about k-perfect numbers, and generalize two inequalities due to M. Perisastri (see [6]).

Platonic Surfaces

If SO is a Riemann surface with a complete metric of finite area and constant curvature −1, let SC denote the conformal compactification of SO. We show that, under the assumption that the cusps of SO are large, there is a close relationship between the hyperbolic metrics on SO and SC . We use this relationship to show that lim infk→∞ λ1(Pk) ≥ 5/36, where the Platonic surface Pk is the conformal...

Origins of Essentialism 1 on the Functional Origins of Essentialism

This essay examines the proposal that psychological essentialism results from a history of natural selection acting on human representation and inference systems. It has been argued that the features that distinguish essentialist representational systems are especially well suited for representing natural kinds. If the evolved function of essentialism is to exploit the rich inductive potential ...