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Category: 39th ISSR Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina (February 2027)
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I need your Financial Support to Continue Digital Humanism
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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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…
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Reconstituting the City of Intellect: The Historiographical and Philosophical Synergy of Eckart Otto and Neville Buch
Abstract This essay explores the profound historiographical and methodological synergies between the German theological and legal scholar Eckart Otto and the Australian intellectual historian and sociologist Dr. Neville Buch. It examines how Otto’s Munich lecture syllabus, Die Geschichte des Natur- und Verfassungsrechts von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, traces the evolution of Western legal and…
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Felt Metaphysics and the Embodied Dynamic of Cognition
Dr Neville Buch and references to William James, Max Scheler, and J. Edward Hackett [1] [1] Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has been fairly used in the production of this work. The tool used is Google NotebookLM (recently rebranded as Gemini Notebook). It is an AI-powered virtual research assistant and thinking partner designed to help a person…
