The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly

This is a slice of my philosophical, lay scientific, musical, religious skepticism, and poetic musings. (All poems are my own.) The science and philosophy side meet in my study of cognitive philosophy; Dan Dennett was the first serious influence on me, but I've moved beyond him. The poems are somewhat related, as many are on philosophical or psychological themes. That includes existentialism and questions of selfhood, death, and more. Nature and other poems will also show up here on occasion.

The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Coming up: One red heifer, without blemish or spot? (No, on either story or cows)

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Per the old bible verse of Numbers 19:2,  Texas Monthly reports on the efforts of rancher Jerome Urbanosky and businessman Byron Stinson ...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

Bobby Kennedy, Edith Hamilton and Aeschylus — wrongness compounded

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Bobby Kennedy's quotation of Aeschylus on the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death is probably one of his greatest known moments...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Matt Harrison have big-ass shit on their hands

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 Rev. Michael William Mohr, president of the Central Illinois District of the denomination, was arrested last month on a child porn charge. ...
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Thursday, January 29, 2026

The stupidities of Tim O'Neill

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 Regular readers here know I love bagging on "History for Atheists" blogger O'Neill, especially his handwaving lies about how ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Top blogging of 2025 on religion, critical thinking and more

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 Again, as with my quarterly posts, not all of these were from 2025, but they were the 10 most read in 2025. I'll note "evergreen...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

We're not teaching Plato at Texas A&M

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Plato is off the philosophy course list  for one class, at least, at Texas A&M because he somehow might say something anti-wingnut about...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Top posts, 3rd quarter of 2025

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 Similar to my main site, but on a quarterly not monthly basis, once again, here's a roundup of the most-read items of the last three mo...
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