The Decolonising the Curriculum movement in higher education has been steadily gaining momentum, accelerated by recent global events calling for an appraisal of intersecting barriers discrimination that ethnic minorities can encounter. While arts and humanities have at forefront these efforts, medical a ‘late starter’ to initiative. In this article, we describe pioneering efforts decolonise und...

This article defends the thesis that Putnam’s theory of the use of empirical concepts constitutes a continuous backbone of his philosophy early and late. Thus, Putnam’s theory of empirical concepts should be at least compatible with the most distinctive features of both, his realism (viz., semantic externalism) and his pragmatism (viz., conceptual pluralism). The article suggests the even stron...

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which plural medical systems emerge; how the Vietnamese have incorporated and transformed values and practices from elsewhere for their own benefit; and early examples of how Vietnamese women’s personal private reproductive lives became of concern to the state. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880– 1945 provides valuable historical antecedents to contemp...

The power of the unaided individual mind is highly overrated. Much human creativity is social, arising from activities that take place in a social context in which interaction with other people and the artifacts that embody collective knowledge are essential contributors. Social creativity is not a luxury but a necessity to address the problems faced by societies in the 21 century. Our research...

Many of our cognitive capacities are shaped by enculturation. Enculturation is the temporally extended transformative acquisition of cognitive practices such as reading, writing, and mathematics. They are embodied and normatively constrained ways to interact with epistemic resources (e.g., writing systems, number systems). Enculturation is associated with significant changes of the organization...