Early draft of a report exploring the idea of challenging the “West is Best” attitude and the potential benefits of an international and interdisciplinary academic study to re-evaluate this perspective. It discusses how narratives, narrative identity, and tribalism shape people’s perceptions and decision-making in international negotiations and highlights the importance of incorporating these concepts in the proposed research program.
Read More
Five lessons from my professional life prompt a research proposal to study the influence of dominant narratives and tribalism in international relations.
Read More
Modern Science arose within a context dominated by Western Philosophy with its roots in ancient Greece, as we will see in later units of this course. Eastern Philosophy, with its roots in ancient Chinese thought, makes very different assumptions about the nature of reality. The resources on this web page supported the discussions at this module of the course
Read MoreJoseph Henrich takes the theories of Richard E, Nisbett and combines them with new research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explain how culture in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world as we know it today. His views complement those of Nisbett.
Read More
A description of what motivated me to develop a 12-part course for u3a, covering our common reality, the shaping of the modern world, and issues facing the modern world.
Read More