Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Intellectual History

  • Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

    Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

        Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025       Dear friends,       Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.       John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…

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  • A Historian’s Future in Australia

    A Historian’s Future in Australia

    A Historian’s Future in Australia by Drs Neil Peach, A.I., and Neville Buch     Abstract: This essay addresses the potential for a specialist historian, holding a PhD with expertise in the history of cognition, local history, history of religion, and Australia/America relations, to secure employment outside traditional academic pathways. Specifically, it explores opportunities within…

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  • The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.

    The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.

    This essay has taken four books (in this order):     Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…

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  • Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities

    Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities

          Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 March 2025   Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks’ thinking.   Dear Vice-Chancellors,   Another informative article from Nicholas B. Dirks. Following the email below, at the bottom of this blog.   Remember…

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  • “I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right

    “I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right

        “I rather be Right than Correct”. If you have intelligent ears to hear, intelligent eyes to see, and intelligent mouths to speak, the statement is perceived in the Age of Trumpism. Today, assertion is increasingly made without the intelligence. There is a confusion between the term “right” and the term “correct”.  “Right” means…

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  • THE THIRD PATHWAY

    Image: “The Third Pathway” I cannot upgrade to the commercial version of ClickCharts because I am financially broke. You are getting this professional, educational, lesson for free.         We live in a world of Power and Thought. Both are inescapable as concepts in the thinking. This article is about interpreting Nietzsche correctly…

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  • 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/         The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it.     Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.     Cognition histories is simply an account of…

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  • “School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools

    “School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools

    An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.”       “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on confusing ideological labels. For the field of studies-in-religion, the thinking has changed greatly as conceptual schemas and this…

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  • Cognition History and Sociology: A Series of Teaching Documents

    The first essay in the series on the emerging field of Cognition History (and Cognition Sociology). The essay begins with introducing key concepts of Micro and Macro scoping, and principal concepts of Thin and Thick. Other key concepts are introduced for their role of cognition. The essay includes a long selective list of the cognition…

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  • The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History

    The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History

    Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher.   His work covers those experiences of soldiers during World War I (and more) who were of the Islamic faith or…

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