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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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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…
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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…
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Future of the History Discipline and History Careers Outside Universities
Letter (email) from Stuart Forbes Macintyre, to Dr Neville Buch, 20 May 2017 at 16:07: We know from the work done on public engagement in history (first in the US and then by Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton at UTS) that studying history is a relatively minor form of participation and that…
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Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking
We have all experience it: Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking. Here is a number which is meaningless: 3.6 millions are on Centrelink payments. Phillips and Narayanan (2021) of the ANU puts it more meaningful: The Australian social security system spends around $120 billion dollars in cash transfers…
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The new Brisbane Governance is stupid | Right solution for the wrong problem
I must thank, in person, “Just a silly Aussie that makes videos about urbanism in Switzerland and other places,” of the Streets and Scars of City Past. It is the technical evidence in the scholarship of transportation which demonstrates the technical evidence in the scholarship of cognition histories and sociology. Indeed, towards the…