The Brisbane’s Meet-Up ‘The Philosophy Café’ had originally organised by threesome of a café owner, a philosopher from the University of Queensland and an educationalist from the Queensland University of Technology. The community work was proving time-consuming for the paid academics and the café owner was facing a few challenges in the business, whereby the meet-up could not continue at the café. A colleague of my mine – another underemployed professional, a English teacher who ran the Brisbane Meet-Up ‘Classic Books’ – decided to take ownership of ‘The Philosophy Café’, with the agreement of the former owner. I agreed to come on-board as a joint-administrator and we organised monthly meetings at a café in Stones Corner. After a few months, my friend handed over the whole organisation of the group over to me. I came up with a seven month teaching program which combined prepared pre-meeting reading lists and materials with a lightly-facilitated group monthly discussion. Hence, there was a putting-together of a learning experience and an open forum to airing considered opinions and genuine questions.
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The Philosophy Cafe. 26 October 2024
Dr. Neville Buch, The Level Playing Field
(CO.5) University, Ideology and Generations
Unnamed. The Uses of State and Local History
1.A Radical Hope in Qld Compatibilism (Short D.03)
2.A MBH Hope in Compatibilism (Short A.03)
2021 AHA-NDB Presentation Melbourne Lived Higher Education Policy
Uncertainity in the Local-Region Relevance
Meet-Up and Participation
The Value of the Secular — Published
Pizzorno – Participation 35 – 41
Steinberger-Rationalism in Politics-2015
The Mystery of Rationality, Mind, Beliefs and the Social Science
Dailey – Striving for Rationality
Australian Policy and History
Higher Education Intellectual Ethos 1989-2024 Research Report
Brisbane Write Club
Bill Metcalf. Antipodean Utopia – Brisbane
Annerley Stephens History Group Inc.
Call for a Queensland History Team
Dr Neville Buch. A Hidden Intellectual History of Queensland. Book Proposal
Gmail – Publishing inquiry re_ your 2022 TASA conference paper
Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum (SBSF)
(Richard Denniss) Big The Role of the State in the Modern Economy (2022). In the National Interest
Urban Sociology and Philosophic Thinking
Australian Historical Association (AHA) and Brisbane City Council
2023-07-04 Whither Local History Paper (FINAL)
WHITHER LOCAL HISTORY (Old Version)
Evangelical History Association (EHA)
Fuller view for Telling the Story of Australian Evangelical History (PRESENTATION HANDOUT)
Fuller view for Telling the Story of Australian Evangelical History (APPENDICIES ONLY)
2023 EHA Speaking Text (for Image Presentation)
Dr Neville Buch Teaching Projects (Road Trips of Life)
Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History (PDF)
Free Thinker Institute
Paul Bélanger. Adult Learning Theories
Robert Calfee. Cognitive Psychology and Educational Practice
Suzanne Hidi. Mental Resource for Learning
Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum:
Small is Big — The Literature Review DRAFT 1.1
The Philosophy Café Meet Up, Brisbane, Australia
Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education
Why Academia.edu and Not Quora
The Right Not to Be Forgotten
Buch, N (2023). The Right Not to Be Forgotten (2)
The Ethics of Belief
Guiding Conditions for Philosophy Genre:
Guiding Conditions for Philosophy Genre
Buch’s Historical Sociology Thesis: From Sociology of Knowledge to Sociology of Ideology and Networks:
Buchs_Historical_Sociology_Thesis_From_S
2023 Philosophical Readings Curriculum
TPC Program for 2023 – Philosophical Readings
IS SOCIAL MEDIA TO BLAME FOR ACADEMIC RUIN? A Document to be Read by Academics: A Message from the Wider Communities:
Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin (Corrections 7 Oct 22)
The Philosophy Café (TPC). Exceptionalism and Conceit. Introductory Essay
2022-09-10 Exceptionalism and Conceit
The Free Thinker Institute (FTI) and The Philosophy Café (TPC). The Whole Concept of Community Education
What is the Science of Learning_ – The Centre for Independent Studies
The Whole Concept of Community Education
The Philosophy Café. Philosophy of Everything
The Philosophy Café. Philosophy of Everything
The Philosophy Café and SoFiA. History of Australian Religion and Spirit
The Philosophy Café. History of Australian Religion and Spirit
The Philosophy Café. Something of Beauty: The Nature of Aesthetics (Nick Traynor)
Brisbane Humanist Club of Friends. Short History of Humanism in Australia and the new Humanists Australia.
A Short History of Humanism (9 Oct 2021. version 2)
The Philosophy Café. Communicative Rationality
The Philosophy Café. Communicative Rationality
Extract – Habermas on Universal Pragmatics (1976)
Extract – Habermas on Theory of Communication (1981)
The Philosophy Café. Morality, Suffering, Luck, and Obligations: Is Morality ethical?
The Philosophy Café. Is Morality Ethical?
Heuer, Ulrike and Gerald Lang (2012). Luck, Value and Commitment (Grayscale)
The Philosophy Café. Being and Not Being – What is Real?
Being and Not Being – What is Real
Brisbane Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (BUUF)
Understanding Spirituality and World Philosophy – Beyond Hegel
Literature, History, and Religion
Nathan Fredrickson. Syllabus on Introduction to American Religion.
Nathan Fredrickson, a Graduate Student teacher at University of California, Santa Barbara, has drawn a very extensive list of the literature on American religions, including a very extensive list of American novels. It also includes an extensive keyword list.
Brisbane Prometheus Society. H.01 Teaching – Literature & History
The Philosophy Café. Introduction to Hegel on Worldview Essay
The Philosophy Café. Introduction to Hegel on Worldview
The Philosophy Café. Beyond Mere Opinion: What is the Philosophical Thought in the Humanities and Social Science, and its Practice in Society?
BIBLIOGRAPHY – Social Philosophy
Brisbane Meetup Intellectual Network
Communicating Ideas of Living During Covid 19
Brisbane’s 1918-1919 Global Pandemic
PAST PROGRAMS
The Gentle Thinkers, Brisbane Meet Up
BOOK REVIEW
Book Review of the ‘Righteous Mind’
The Classics Books Club, Brisbane Meet-Up
REVIEW ESSAYS
A Literary History of Camus & His Plague (23 May 2020)
BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophy Café. Finding Philosophical Thinking in Understanding Society, Religion, Science, Politics, and Culture (Current)
READINGS
Cultural Theory Reading [Final]
MULTIMEDIA
Religion & Science (PowerPoint Script)
Power & Theory (PowerPoint Script)
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
The Philosophy Café. Living Philosophy in Contemporary Times Program Series (August-December 2019)
ESSAYS
01. Metaphysics Essay (15 Sept 2019)
02. Ontology Essay (13 Oct 2019)
03. Ethics Essay (10 Nov 2019)
04. Epistemology Essay (08 Dec 2019)
READINGS
01. Metaphysics Readings (15 Sept 2019)
02. Ontology Readings (13 Oct 2019)
03. Ethics Readings (10 Nov 2019)
04. Epistemology Readings (08 Dec 2019)
The Philosophy Café. Living Philosophy in Contemporary Times Program Series (August 2019 – February 2020)
ESSAYS
00. Where We Are At — Ancient & Modern Thought (Version 2)
05. Logic & Critical Theory Essay (8 March 2020)
06. Language Essay (12 April 2020)
08. Sociology Briefing Note (14 June 2020)
READINGS
07. Mind Readings (10 May 2020)
The Philosophy Café. Our Present and Philosophies in the History of Western Philosophy Program Series (December 2018 – July 2019)
The Philosophy Cafe and Manning Clark’s Historiography (Online Article)
Neville’s Organisation of Clark’s Short History (Download)
After the Age of Revolution for Australia (Download)
Summary on Clark’s Short History and the Age of Revolution (Download)
New Imperialism and Globalisation (Download)
New Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Download)
Cultural Pluralism and Modern Humanism (Download)