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Policy Problems that Governance does not want to face
“Year 12 students at eight schools were taught the wrong topic for final exams, as authorities rush to check whether even more pupils have been impacted by the bungle.” In Queensland, October 29, 2025 Whatever operational bundle emerges, there is still the policy problem behind that governance does not want to face. …
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Neil Van Leeuwen’s Précis for Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
The General Concept: A Two-Map Cognitive Structure Consider children playing with dolls on a playground during recess. from Neil Van Leeuwen Two things strike us. First, though the children are absorbed, they don’t lose their grip on reality. They remain aware that sand is sand, that wet sand builds better “castles,” that they…
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Work Profile: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy 222 sources The provided sources cover a broad range of topics, predominantly in philosophy, social theory, and Australian history and sociology. Several texts focus on philosophical concepts such as cognition, consciousness, and the mind-body problem, with discussions ranging from emergentism and realism to the theories of thinkers like Mead, Dewey, and Habermas, the latter…
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Shift the Thinking in Urban Sociology
We need to change current thinking in urban sociology. We do a comprehensive strategy: Urban Coalition (Brisbane), and MICE. Radical enough to shift the agenda, liberal enough to allow everyone a decent place in the social environment, and conservative enough to preserve the legacy of good value. Featured Image: Socio-Anthropological Methods …
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Is History Sold Cheaply?
https://www.facebook.com/simon.cole.241457/videos/799258339556758?idorvanity=250449248402425 That is so funny, Simon Cole, 😆 (see video at link) and on a serious note, appalling 😡…It is in these days of poor cognition — “good enough” is not good enough in project management. It does not take much thought to create a far better revealing “curtain” for a raised…
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David S. Brown on Richard Hofstadter: Personalism in Personable Context is Correct
Social environment inevitably intrudes upon historical analysis, however, and so we must appreciate not simply the author’s work, but also the public and personal circumstances that sustain and gave meaning to his efforts. “Before you study the history,” one commentator advised, “study the historian…The historian, being an individual, is also a product of history, and…
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Education Horizons 2021-2022. Government Acting Badly.
All Payments to Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 At the end of 2022 Dr Buch was placed in an impossible position in terms of gaining employment or a contract for which he was aimfully qualified. This paper analysing the story. The conclusions are questions that the Queensland Government was asking in the period…
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What is my Thought, What is Your Question: An Academia and Educational Paper
A phenomenological-existential investigation of the question of why populations stagnated into “more of the same” ‘bullshit’, as in Harry Frankfurt (2014). Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn’t care whether what they say is true…
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John Searle Obituary, from “The Guardian” with a few comments from the Work of Dr Buch
John Searle obituary American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do Jane O’Grady, The Guardian Sun 5 Oct 2025 22.29 AEDT The American philosopher John Searle, who has died aged 93, first made his name in philosophy of language, then in philosophy of…
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Vale Marion Maddox 1965 – 2025: MICE Condolences
Marion Maddox (passed 16 September 2025) was a Professor in the Discipline of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University where she taught Australian politics and religious studies until her retirement in 2021. Prior to her tenure at Macquarie University, she held positions at Victoria University Wellington for seven years, the University of…