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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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The Shifting Tides: A Return of the Humanities in Public Imagination
Dr Neville Buch https://www.academia.edu/145459099/Shifting_Tides_The_Return_of_The_Humanities_in_Public_Imagination The Shifting Tides: A Return of the Humanities in Public Imagination Abstract The contemporary return of the humanities to the public imagination is a critical response to the technicisation of cognition and the resultant “immense regression,” a state characterized by “absolute non-knowledge” and the erosion of human agency.…
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Hanukkah
Dedication to the Memory of those Killed at Bondi Beach, 14 December 2025: Hanukkah, a Jewish festival, lasting eight days from the 25th day of Kislev (in December) and commemorating the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC by the Maccabees after its desecration by the Syrians. It is marked by the successive kindling of…
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Badge of Honour
Neville, This email is to formally advise you that your ongoing email behaviour is completely unacceptable and unprofessional. It must stop. In February 2024 the PHA warned you about this, and other unacceptable behaviours. Your incessant email campaigns reflect badly on yourself and the PHA cannot support or condone them.…
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Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready: cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology.
PDF FILE: Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready https://www.academia.edu/145183063/Cognitive_Failure_in_the_Idea_of_Job_Ready 28 November 2025 Dear friends, I have dug deeper in this academia.edu article on the cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology. I have widen the circle for economists, who may…
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Great Campus Vibe Shift?
Image: The Dynamic of Cognition for the Great Campus Vibe Shift? I woke up this morning and found yet another academic fashion. What in hell’s name is Great Campus Vibe Shift? Google was not particularly helpful with the first attempt. But then I asked the more open question, what is…
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The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me?
An Academia.Edu Paper called “The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me”: https://www.academia.edu/144863959/The_Overwhelming_Argument_on_why_contract_or_employ_me The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me (PDF) This article is not self-promotion but an intellectual plea. This article is not advertising nor marketing, but the Most Intelligent Plea of Intelligent Pleas. It is…
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“You Don’t Know What You Are Saying”: The Damage that “Local” Politicians Do…
Neel is yet to finish his HSC exams, and two of his dream uni courses are gone Year 12 students face uncertain futures as universities slash jobs and units while chasing millions of dollars in savings. The Sydney Morning Herald 4 November 2025 By Emily Kowal “…[to] spearhead a twenty-first century…
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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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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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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…