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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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Acknowledgement of contact to the Lord Mayor: We demand multi-governmental solutions delivered
The Council is possibly in crisis, I sent the email, Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Lord Mayor, stating that his media response, to the criticisms of the Council’s Flood Management Plan, and the policies which framed it, is unacceptable to the majority of residents who know anything about public administration policy. Today, 34 days…
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The First Week of 2022
The first week of 2022, of “Januray,” as the artist wrote (image below), has passed, indeed! In Australia, after the first week of January in the new year, in the Covid-19 numbers we have 381,269 active cases, 3,979 hospitalised, 275 in ICU, and 2,319 total deaths (as of 10:30 AEST, 8 Jan 22). “Why,” we…
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Melbourne, Brisbane Southside, and Urban Development
I lived in Melbourne for a decade. Coming from Brisbane, what struck me is the largeness of the diverse landscape. The foliage and species differed, as well as the contours, but diverse suburban landscapes were paralleled in Brisbane, at a different scale. You had a grander ‘intercity’ region which the streetscape reminded me of South…
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Range of Personal Semantics
We all speak of person and personal where meaning is entangled. Philosophy over millennia has precise terms to reference person. This is a model which will help to untangle our imprecise usage. The terms reflect technical debates mired in reflections, binaries, and boxes. The key here is relationship. How one person thinks are related…
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Rick and Racheal in the Year 2021
This is a repost from 6 October 2017. A film review of ‘Bade Runner 2049’, and where the plot begins in the year 2021. It is applied philosophy which has something to say about human connections. It helps us think about what is humanism. What hits me about the conclusion of the blade runner saga,…
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Julian Baggini’s Idea of Dialogue and Academy’s Isolation for Independent Scholars
“One of the many paradoxes of higher education is that while it is dedicated to the production of new, often ground-breaking ideas, its institutions perpetuate obsolete practices from previous centuries…. Think of a typical journal paper in the humanities or social sciences. Most of its content is part of some ongoing intradisciplinary dialogue, responding to…
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Dear Stan, a Call for Journalists to Call for Self-Reflecting Political Education
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-10/us-toxic-politics-started-long-before-donald-trump-arrived/13042856 Dear Stan, I have been a cultural and social historian in relation to the ‘American challenges’ for many years. While I appreciate your moderating commentary, I felt that you keep missing the bigger picture for the capacity to educate people on their own belief systems, and why they become so wrong in their judgements…
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Progress and Popular Thinking in the United States & Australia 1945-2020
Sometime ago, two scholars – an American, and an Australian – discussed descriptions of populism and progressivism in the history of the United States and Australia after 1945. The reflection that flows here is a synopsis of that conversation, reshaped as an argument on our current political position. Marilyn Lake’s book, “Progressive New World:…
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Oh, No! Not the Religion and Science Debate, Again, and Again…and Again…
In The Philosophy Cafe, Brisbane, Australia, meeting, this discussion will not be a debate, but a process of deconstructing the mixed messages that tangle people up in cognitive knots. In both categories, of ‘religion’ and ‘science’, misconceptions abound. For Script, click here: Religion & Science (PowerPoint Script)
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What is Cost for A Professional Historian: One Measure – Book Purchases
What does it cost for those better historians, the ones which are trained for their profession and sacrifice for their passion in reading, research, and writing? The question should be asked in the time of the increased pricing of the Arts course, recently announced by the Australian Government. It is an almost impossible…