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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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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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Define and Explain Personalism
By Dr Neville Buch with A.I. assistance Define and Explain Personalism Jan Olof Bengtsson writes in The Worldview of Personalism: Origins and Early Development (2006:283): Deeply involved in the complexities of a crossover period, when the influence of traditional culture was not yet eclipsed by radical modernism, idealistic personalism evinces many…
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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…
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Propaganda and Executive University Rhetoric
‘We can’t ask to turn the clock back. The resources just aren’t there’ As he takes up the presidency of Universities UK, Manchester Met vice-chancellor Malcolm Press today speaks to Times Higher Education about the financial challenges institutions face – and he’s under no illusions. “The government won’t always be able to do everything we…
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The Fit of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility
This research task is a more comprehensive version from a set of previous publication. It is an argument on how ideologies of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility can actually come together in opposition to hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and centralism inaccuracy. Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and…
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TASA Statement on the Targeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Please read the TASA Statement on the Targeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 20 June 2025. It very much matters. TASA STATEMENT
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Questions & Answers: Meaning
How philosophy works … @tomgauld Thanks Philosophy Matters…. Yes, of course, but not to let fools off-the-hook, who think this means that answers have no meaning: The answers are a thing, you bloody fools, which needs to be carefully listened to. Just because answers…
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“‘Mind-boggling stupidity’”
I have been saying the key primary message for the last decade, and more, for what Rick Morton has detailed on the Nous Group model, in The Saturday Paper, June 14 – 20, 2025 | No. 554, with the title, “‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities”. And it is stupidity: “When…
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Neville, help revive the contest of ideas
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office An Australian Top Humanities and Social Science Researcher 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA Hon. John Howard Former Australian Prime Minister c/ Menzies Research Centre PO Box 6091 Kingston ACT 2604 AUSTRALIA 12 June 2025 …
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Why Open-Humanistic Unitarian-Universalism?
The long title of the article: Why Open-Humanistic Unitarian-Universalism is at the Heart of Things in 21st Century? In recent times I have signed off my communication, “May I not hope to be heard with candor? God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth…