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
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Calling all music police: round up the Bernstein-Beethoven recordings

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About five years ago, I got home one evening from somewhere, and turned on WRR, the Dallas classical radio station. I immediately recognized...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

Hey, is there anybody in there?

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Who am I? Am I somebody? Am I an illusion? A collection of sub-somebodies? And, to borrow language from economics, how fungible is the sense...
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Mahler: the anti-Beethoven

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How’s that? Mahler’s first symphony clearly exhibits signs of being written as a deliberate aheroic, or even antiheroic, counterpoint to Bee...

Existential thoughts on Camus

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I’m rereading Camus – currently on "The Stranger." As I was out for a walk tonight in what is really “normal” temperature but felt...
Monday, February 06, 2006

Youth, violence and video games — a personal angle

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One of my coworkers was talking in a joking way this morning about how her husband has been playing Grand Theft Auto with their 2-year-old s...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Is Mozart overrated?

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Well, it's officially here — it’s the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth Saturday, and all the attendant hyperbole and hoopla will get ...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Who’s hurt, and who’s diseased?

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“I’m messed up, and I might mess you up.” And where have I heard those lines before? After more than seven years, I still remember. I still ...
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