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I am the leading Australian scholar in the new field of learning to which we can call Cognition Histories and Sociology. I am involved in several projects of international collaboration. I owe Optus $212.32 and my internet has been restricted so much that it looks as if I might be off-line for a few days,…
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The Architecture of Reform and The Self-Defeating Spiral
https://www.academia.edu/175403989/The_Architecture_of_Reform_A_Comparative_Analysis_of_Political_Cognition_and_Policy_Intelligence_1950s_vs_2020s Political reform is fundamentally an ontological movement, navigating the subject from the state of Geworfenheit (thrownness) toward the restoration of human authorship. This analysis employs Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) to contrast the “thick” ethical knowledge of the 1950s with the “analytical abyss” of the 2020s. In the mid-20th century, reform was…
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The Neuro-Philosophy of Belief and Doubt: Synthesizing Credition, False Tagging, and Uncertainty Reduction within the Dynamic of Cognition
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Image Posters and PowerPoint are available through the Management Institute for Contributory Economy: email [email protected] Abstract This essay constructs a neuro-philosophical synthesis between recent empirical discoveries in cognitive neuroscience—specifically Hans-Ferdinand Angel and Rüdiger J. Seitz’s (2024) theory of credition, Erik Asp et al.’s (2012) False Tagging Theory (FTT) of ventromedial…
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Model of Intellect
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract A model of intellect “measure” in the “fitness” of big ideas together, and the big ideas including their own measure of “doubt”. The measure is not strictly mathematical; it has no count. The measure is of vision and imagination. Fitness is the “movement” in compatibility. Fitness is always challenged in lifelong…
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Experience versus Market: Bevin Luchel’s Polemics and Kåre S. Fuglseth’s Phenomenological Education
Abstract This essay presents a comparative critical analysis of Bevin Luchel’s (2026a, 2026b, 2026c) series of market-reductionist polemics—The Desperation of Derivation, The Illusion of the Non Market Panacea, and The Mirage of the Subsidized Mind—against Kåre S. Fuglseth’s (2026) phenomenological framework of educational values and virtues. We demonstrate that Luchel’s reliance on Carl Menger’s subjective…
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The Epistemic Corrosion of Deregulation: A Foundherentist Subversion of Bevin Luchel’s Neoliberal Epistemology
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The Sovereign Intellect vs. The Marketized Mind: A Foundherentist Subversion of Bevin Luchel’s Neoliberal Epistemology
Abstract This essay presents a definitive, philosophically grounded rebuttal to Bevin Luchel’s (2026) series of critiques against Dr. Neville Buch’s proposal for “professional contractualism”. It demonstrates that Luchel’s defence of the “spontaneous market order of intellectual exchange” constitutes a profound category error and a form of “vulgar pragmatism” that reduces epistemic validity to transactional utility.…
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Grounding Comprehensive Education: A Phenomenological Approach to Place, Environment, and Architecture
Dr Neville Buch and MICE in reference to David Seamon’s (2000)[1] Abstract This essay explores the potential of incorporating David Seamon’s (2000) environmental and architectural phenomenology into Dr. Neville Buch’s framework of Comprehensive Education. We examine how phenomenology, as a “radical empiricism” that treats person and environment as an “indivisible whole” (Seamon 2000, p. 3),…
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The Cynicism of the Market: Foundherentism, Contributory Economy, and the Subversion of Luchel’s Rent-Seeking Epistemology
Abstract This critical reply essay deconstructs Bevin Luchel’s The Subsidised Imagination: A Critique of Rent-Seeking Epistemology in Buch’s The Crucible of Consciousness (2026). It demonstrates that Luchel’s deployment of public choice theory and subjective value theory constitutes a profound category error and a form of “vulgar pragmatism.” By reducing the value of intellectual labour to…
