From PhilPapers forum The Categorization Project:

2010-03-19
Where are new categories needed?
The 'Essentialism' section is a bit of a mess: there are papers on Feminist essentialism, natural kind essentialism, individual object essentialism, historical papers about Locke, and discussions about cultural essentialism. Would it be possible to make some sub-categories to distinguish between these various forms of essentialism? In particular, it might be beneficial to demarcate the 'fundamental' essentialisms from the other sorts (and then maybe to further demarcate the metaphysical essentialisms by type), e.g. have as a broad selection of categories

Metaphysical/Scientific Essentialism
Feminist Essentialism
Aesthetic Essentialism
Psychological Essentialism
Political/Cultural Essentialism

These could then have subsequent sub-categories which focus upon particular debates (unless of course there isn't enough papers within each category to require sub-categories).

I make this suggestion for a pair of reasons. First, if I'm going to look for papers concerning Feminist Epistemology and gender essentialism, I'm going to be pretty confused when I come up with articles about mereological essentialism. Second, the Essentialism category already has 221 papers, which is way more than it really should (compare it to its sibling category, Origins Essentialism, which has 12). Many of the papers could be shunted off into their respective sub-categories, rendering the category into something a bit easier to handle (and more in line with the categorization project guidelines).