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The Soft City. Cognitive Governance and Urban Advocacy (community)
https://www.academia.edu/165189954/The_Soft_City_Cognitive_Governance_and_Urban_Advocacy Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 The Soft City. Cognitive Governance and Urban Advocacy (community) Abstract This essay examines the role of community as the fundamental substrate for urban advocacy, defining it sociologically as an interpersonal synthesis of lived experience rather than a mere geographic or administrative unit. Urban advocates often…
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Silence is not a pathway to Peace
https://www.academia.edu/165126270/Silence_is_not_a_pathway_to_Peace Attached: Silence is not a pathway to Peace Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the proposition that silence, rather than serving as a conduit for harmony, acts as a primary catalyst for “Historical Forgetfulness” and the “immense regression” of the human spirit. Drawing on the political philosophy…
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John Moses. Anglican Historiography: Conservative Historiography and the Philosophy of John Moses (HAPI Past Series)
This essay explores the historiography of John Anthony Moses, a preeminent Australian historian and staff member of the University of Queensland’s (UQ) school of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI) from 1965 to 1994. Moses is characterized by his unique integration of secular Rankean methodology with an acute sensitivity to church history, religion, and theology as…
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The Critique of The University of Queensland Social Impact Report
https://www.academia.edu/165117552/The_Critique_of_The_University_of_Queensland_Social_Impact_Report Attached. The Critique of The University of Queensland Social Impact Report Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay provides a critical analysis of The University of Queensland (UQ) Social Impact Report 2025, utilizing the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework to unmask the report’s reliance on “retail governance” and…
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Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678)
https://www.academia.edu/165049393/Ralph_Cudworth_The_True_Intellectual_System_of_the_Universe_1678_ Attached: Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) represents the definitive seventeenth-century defence of a self-conscious, universal Mind against the rising tide of mechanical and hylozoic atheism. By investigating the foundational…
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The Reflective Ascent: Reclaiming Human Authorship over Despair (a short teaching note)
Dr Neville Buch A Short Note for Hope from What I have Published In the midst of unawareness and depression, a condition often characterized as a state of “absolute non-knowledge” or “symbolic misery,” a person should actively engage in a “reflective ascent” to reclaim human authorship over their own narrative. This process begins by recognizing…
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An Intelligent Understanding
https://www.academia.edu/165011433/An_Intelligent_Understanding https://drnevillebuch.com/an-intelligent-understanding/ Attached: An Intelligent Understanding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the persistent human tendencies toward prejudice, racism, and ethnocentrism, framing these “human flaws” through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework. By comparing contemporary Western narratives of exclusion…
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Strategic Cousins: The Cognition of Australian and Canadian Political Unison
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay presents a Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) analysis of the unison in Canadian and Australian political thinking, as evidenced in the 2026 Hansard record of the Australian Parliament’s welcome to the Rt Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. By applying the DoC framework—centring on the transition from unreflective habits…
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Brisbane Olympics: The Thinking
Neville Buch (Dr) Abstract: The writer is involved in Brisbane’s Urban Coalition alliance of community organisations in urban sociology, discussing the planning for the Brisbane Olympics. This article explains why the thinking of the local Brisbane Olympic Committee has strayed so badly. (2023 words). Unsurprising is that populists, including political representatives, do…
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Geoffrey Bolton. Comprehensive Historiography
Geoffrey Bolton: Comprehensive Historiography and the Philosophy of Geoffrey Bolton (HAPI Past Series) Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defuncted Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published.…