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Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678)
https://www.academia.edu/165049393/Ralph_Cudworth_The_True_Intellectual_System_of_the_Universe_1678_ Attached: Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) represents the definitive seventeenth-century defence of a self-conscious, universal Mind against the rising tide of mechanical and hylozoic atheism. By investigating the foundational…
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An Intelligent Understanding
https://www.academia.edu/165011433/An_Intelligent_Understanding https://drnevillebuch.com/an-intelligent-understanding/ Attached: An Intelligent Understanding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the persistent human tendencies toward prejudice, racism, and ethnocentrism, framing these “human flaws” through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework. By comparing contemporary Western narratives of exclusion…
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Strategic Cousins: The Cognition of Australian and Canadian Political Unison
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay presents a Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) analysis of the unison in Canadian and Australian political thinking, as evidenced in the 2026 Hansard record of the Australian Parliament’s welcome to the Rt Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. By applying the DoC framework—centring on the transition from unreflective habits…
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The Best Use of A.I. and Higher Education
“The workers who use AI best will deploy human judgment to analyse and evaluate information. To succeed in a workplace, not simply at a desk, they will be able to listen as well as to communicate. Their relentless curiosity will be grounded in intellectual humility, while their ethical behaviour will require moral courage.” …
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Identity Politics and the Ascent toward Comprehensive Empathy (Anthropologic Pedagogy)
Intellectual historians of Australia, the questions and answers section ties everything together in the attached essay of the Dynamic of Cognition and Spiral Historiography. Identity Politics and the Ascent toward Comprehensive Empathy (Anthropologic Pedagogy) This essay explores the proposition that “Identity Politics is Personal,” an argument developed by Dave Andrews which…
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Brisbane Olympics: The Thinking
Neville Buch (Dr) Abstract: The writer is involved in Brisbane’s Urban Coalition alliance of community organisations in urban sociology, discussing the planning for the Brisbane Olympics. This article explains why the thinking of the local Brisbane Olympic Committee has strayed so badly. (2023 words). Unsurprising is that populists, including political representatives, do…
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Charles Ringma: Comprehensively Christian Historiography and the Philosophy of Charles Ringma (HAPI Past Series)
Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defuncted Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published. In the meantime, it has occurred to me to write up on the past academics of…
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Geoffrey Bolton. Comprehensive Historiography
Geoffrey Bolton: Comprehensive Historiography and the Philosophy of Geoffrey Bolton (HAPI Past Series) Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defuncted Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published.…
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Socialist Historiography and the Philosophy of ‘Ray Evans’ HAPI Past Series
https://www.academia.edu/164902737/Socialist_Historiography_and_the_Philosophy_of_Ray_Evans_HAPI_Past_Series Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay examines the historiographical legacy of Raymond Evans, a transformative figure within the University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI). Evans’ career, spanning from the 1960s to his retirement as Associate Professor in 2002, is defined by a radical…
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ART and Christian Churches
Abstract This essay examines the causal link between the decline of Australian churches and the systematic adoption of the American Revivalist Tradition (ART), as forewarned by Dr. Neville Buch in his 1995 doctoral research. It argues that the transition from a British-oriented “clerical Enlightenment” to a mechanized American model of faith has induced a state…