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
Sunday, October 29, 2006

THE OLD DISPENSATION

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The old dispensation has come again; The placement of time has been realigned to its origin. What was saved or conserved these last months, ...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

To heck with the Fine Arts Chamber Players as well as the DSO

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After seeing that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra was doing nothing special in either last year’s or this year’s concert season for the Shosta...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Wasn’t that a nice sunset yesterday?

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Including some thought provoked about atonement It sure was here in Dallas, for the start of Yom Kippur. (I had Kol Nidre playing on the st...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

What's wrong with the core assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology

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In writing this post, I am working with Imre Lakatos’ philosophy of science understanding of the development and refinement of scientific t...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

If ensoulment happens at conception, what about identical twins?

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I’ve written elsewhere on how the human conception and development process is so fragile that (not counting abortions), only about 50 perce...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Evolutionary Psychology, Dan Dennett, and the supposedly algorithmic nature of evolution

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In my previous post about the wrongness of Evolutionary Psychology, after connecting the dots that led to that conclusion, I then started t...

Evolutionary psychology — adaptationism defined sub specie Leibnitz

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Adaptationism: “The Leibnitzian view of how gene-based evolutionary changes produce the optimal development of traits in individuals, there...
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