Skepticism, Anti-essentialism, and New essentialism.

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Ebrahim Dadjoo
Associate professor in Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought (iict)
10.22034/zehn.2025.2053619.2092
Abstract
Skepticism has passed three periods of old, middle, and new skepticism, and leaded to anti-realism. In new period, with help of new essentialism, we have found that their anti-realism roots in their anti-essentialism. Anti-essentialism has attitude to anti-realism, with run away from acceptance that things have essence and essential properties, their influence by way of their essence and essential properties, and these are roots of causality and necessity of things, and therefore anti-essentialism says laws of nature aren't causal laws and standing to reality, but they are agreemental, conventional, and standing to validity. Essentialism and new essentialism attitude to realism, with acceptance that things have essence and essential properties, their influence by way of their essence and essential properties, and they are roots of causality and necessity of things, and therefore they say laws of nature are causal laws and standing to reality. These two processes will be realist or anti-realist in epistemology, in following of being realist or anti-realist in ontology.
Keywords
Skepticism
Humean Skepticism
Anti-essentialism
New essentialism

Subjects

 
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