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A Historian’s Future in Australia
A Historian’s Future in Australia by Drs Neil Peach, A.I., and Neville Buch Abstract: This essay addresses the potential for a specialist historian, holding a PhD with expertise in the history of cognition, local history, history of religion, and Australia/America relations, to secure employment outside traditional academic pathways. Specifically, it explores opportunities within…
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The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.
This essay has taken four books (in this order): Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…
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IN MEMORIAM, THE APRIL FOOL WHO WAS NOT, 55 YEARS, EIGHT YEARS AGO
Dear Ruth, It has been eight dead birthdays since you are past. I miss you very much. There is nothing much I can say, that has not always been said. Here is a birthday present for you. “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot with some my favourite selections: …
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The Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 March 2025 Re: Public Statement of What is the Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics: Political Players Impoverishing the Public Associations and Persons Therein Dear friends, Provided here is a free reading of an article: Carolyn Y.…
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2025 THE Most International University in the World
The first Australian university, Australian National University, was globally ranked at 22. The other universities were: The University of Queensland globally ranked 24 UNSW Sydney globally ranked 24 The University of Melbourne globally ranked 28 The University of Sydney globally ranked 37 The University of Auckland (NZ) globally ranked 44…
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Humanism, Free Thought, and Our Conflicted Times
The following is an engagement with my mentor and friend, Dr Charles Ringma, on the basis of his excellent article, “Towards a True Humanism: some small theological steps“. This is Dr Buch’s A.I. engagement, which oddly is the human sets of thoughts and human control in the action, even as techné shapes thinking and our…
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The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors
The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors Trump’s Pressures on US Universities: Lessons for Australia 14 March 2025 The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors PDF copy. Introduction (Review of Task) The facilitator of this report prompted the…
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The scramble after the storm…
The War against North-East United States Education. From The Chronicle of Higher Education (Daily Briefing: Columbia’s crises contagion, email, 11 March 2025, 20:30). Australians be warn, this could come our way without intellectual and socio-political vigilance. The Trump administration pushed long-simmering crises to a head at an Ivy League institution last…
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Mind, Body, Cognition with Ideology (The Fit of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility)
Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and ‘cognition’, however, disposition is only one half of the story. Vague spiritualism rides too heavily on agency which is the relationship of ‘mind’ and ‘cognition’, however, agency is only one half of the story. It leads to confusion in…
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“I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right
“I rather be Right than Correct”. If you have intelligent ears to hear, intelligent eyes to see, and intelligent mouths to speak, the statement is perceived in the Age of Trumpism. Today, assertion is increasingly made without the intelligence. There is a confusion between the term “right” and the term “correct”. “Right” means…