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Category: MICE: Management Institute for Contributory Economy
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Thinking is Out of Sync with Itself: Genealogy in Four Disciplines – Deconstructing the Trumpocene (academia.edu)
‘Thinking being out of sync with itself’ goes to the problem of the relationship between historical consciousness, politics, and secularity. The confusion overlooks various interdisciplinary ‘consensus’ and ‘common agreement’ to which the American administration of Donald Trump is now demolishing. The essay method establishes a common agreement in the genealogy of thought from John…
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Where be the Arrogance (reference to Tittle 2004): The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004
The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004 Dr Neville Buch There is for Humanism in the 21st century and Trumpocene a correct way of thinking available (Toulmin 1953: 219, 235), and the singular here is one summative thought that combines many other thoughts. There is both diversity and a singular…
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Education Horizons 2021-2022. Government Acting Badly.
All Payments to Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 At the end of 2022 Dr Buch was placed in an impossible position in terms of gaining employment or a contract for which he was aimfully qualified. This paper analysing the story. The conclusions are questions that the Queensland Government was asking in the period…
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What is my Thought, What is Your Question: An Academia and Educational Paper
A phenomenological-existential investigation of the question of why populations stagnated into “more of the same” ‘bullshit’, as in Harry Frankfurt (2014). Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn’t care whether what they say is true…
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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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Political Anthropology as Method (Arpad Szakolczai and Australian thinkers)
“Political Anthropology is a way of doing academic/scholarly/research work in order to understand political reality…Humans can never transcend such a participatory perspective.” Barry Cooper, Professor of Politics, University of Calgary, Canada. Political Anthropology as Method Front Matter There is hope if we engage the socio-political anthropological thinking: Environmental Hope.…
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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 Best Assessment on Higher Education, Globally Perceived (to date)
Ellie Bothwell, rankings editor, has given the best assessment on Higher Education, globally perceived, at least in the historical moment we have. From Ellie Bothwell, This week in higher education, The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), daily email, 28 August 2025: It is a troubling sign of the times, and the crisis…
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Andrew James Brown: Open Education and Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”.
Andrew James Brown provides Open Education and an introduction to Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”. I recommend listen to the YouTube video. Or read the transcription of Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin’ichiro [今岡信一良] (1881-1988). School Education and Religion (2) [1956] Shōwa 31 [1956] in…