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Category: 39th ISSR Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina (February 2027)
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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…
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Designing Autonomy in the Age of Style: A Review of Arif Jameel’s Architect Generation and The Lifestyle State
Abstract This review essay examines the interconnected socio-philosophical treatises of independent scholar Arif Jameel: Architect Generation: Reviving the Legacy of Greek, Muslim, and European Masters to Redesign the Future (2026a) and The Lifestyle State: “Needs become luxuries. Welfare becomes lifestyle” (2026b). Together, these works diagnose a profound crisis of human agency and institutional legitimacy in…
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Spin on History
For example, in Queensland, modern history enrolments have only declined by 1% since 2009. There has also been modest growth of 9.6% in New South Wales. The quote is from “Is history a school subject in crisis? New research shows it isn’t, at least not yet”, Rebecca Cairns and Kerri Anne Garrard, The Conversation, August…
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The Synoptic Vision of Sam Hey’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Abstract This essay examines Sam Hey’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship (2026) as a significant methodological and epistemological bridge between the natural sciences, developmental psychology, and pastoral theology. Structurally, Hey’s work sequentially integrates chemistry, physics, geography, and psychology with confessional education and church leadership. Its primary intent is to construct a non-blaming, relational model of human development and…
