2025-07-07 A Eulogy for Jack Dr Jack Ford 4 May 1957 – 29 June 2025 My Dearest Friend… Acknowledgements to Brenda Biggs, Leela Ford, and Drs. Sue Keays, Chris Hanlon, Catherine Manathunga, Peter Overlack, Joanne Scott, Bernadette Turner,...
Three years I was somewhere else on my journey. There are many ways to think about this past. A few thoughts from where I am at, **in** (not simply 'at') 'home', is that I am just as alone as I was then. The open road never gave me companionship, but neither did I...
I must apologise for posting in what would seem a simple matter of emailing the universities and asking them to stop blocking me in my legitimate, academic communications. However, you have the 'chicken-and-egg' problem. In order to let the authorities know they have...
Jack Grove, Ottoline Leyser: ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’, Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), June 26, 2025. Comment: The THE article is in the UK natural science context, but where it began locally, for Australian...
This research task is a more comprehensive version from a set of previous publication. It is an argument on how ideologies of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility can actually come together in opposition to hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and...
Please read the TASA Statement on the Targeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 20 June 2025. It very much matters. TASA STATEMENT
Clary Doyle was the undergraduate student speaker at Northwestern University’s 2025 commencement. Her address to classmates has been edited lightly in Clary Doyle, "I just graduated with a philosophy degree. Here’s my message to the Class of 2025", The Washington...
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE) has announced its Impact Rankings 2025 results, and it is rather surprising. In total, Asian universities occupy 22 of the top 50 spots in the overall ranking (up from 12 last year) – compared with 11...
Education, social stability & social change. University of Sydney. Durkheim, Parsons and Bowles & Gintis on education. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Sociology of Education Thematic Group...