Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?

  • Agency, Cultural Construction, and Synoptic Vision: On Matt Patterson’s Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory (2009)

    Agency, Cultural Construction, and Synoptic Vision: On Matt Patterson’s Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory (2009)

    Dr Neville Buch and MICE in reference to the work of Matt Patterson[1] Abstract This review essay provides a critical examination of Matt Patterson’s (2009) Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory, analysing its foundational synthesis of sociological agency, social constructionism, and the dialectic between cultural ideas and material forces [Patterson 2009, pp. 2, 13, 25]. By…

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  • Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto. Ciceronian Statecraft, Spinozan Toleration, and Prophetic Praxis

    Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto. Ciceronian Statecraft, Spinozan Toleration, and Prophetic Praxis

    We are currently witnessing an erosion of our shared intellectual life that rivals the physical threats of antiquity. As a student of the longue durée, I must issue a prophetic warning: the systematic defunding of the humanities and the reduction of education to mere technical utility is a violation of salus populi suprema lex esto.…

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  • Esse Quam Videri: Integrity, Historiographical Practice, and the Ciceronian Imperative in the Scholarship

    Esse Quam Videri: Integrity, Historiographical Practice, and the Ciceronian Imperative in the Scholarship

    This essay examines the classical philosophical dictum Esse quam videri (“To be, rather than to seem”) originally articulated by Marcus Tullius Cicero in Laelius de Amicitia (chapter 98) and analyses its operationalization in the historiographical and sociological practice of Dr. Neville Buch. The essay begins by investigating Cicero’s historical practice of esse quam Vider through…

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  • I need your Financial Support to Continue Digital Humanism

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Every Chapter of this story utterly awe-inspiring

    Every Chapter of this story utterly awe-inspiring

    Every Chapter of this story utterly awe-inspiring https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F2540060723086109%2F&show_text=true&width=267&t=0 Featured Image: Judith Wright and Jack Wright

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  • Spin on History

    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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  • Spiral Historiography from the Existentialists

    Image: Digital Humanity from Dr. Neville Buch

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