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
Monday, June 02, 2008

Larry Summers and Steve Pinker listen up!

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That male-female math gap? It appears to be reversible . The quasi-metaphysical Evolutionary Psychology, as opposed to the actually scientif...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

In the top 1,500!

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I am, that is. Among Amazon book reviewers. So, if you want to see what I like and dislike, beyond a few reviews I’ve recently posted on the...
Monday, May 05, 2008

Will the real Friedrich Schiller please exhume himself?

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For almost a century, since a second skull was exhumed from a mass grave where German poet Freidrich Schiller was buried, German scientists ...

Why I won't be renewing my DSO season tickets

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First, even among “warhorse” composers, the DSO had neglected a number of them for years if not decades. When is the last time it played a C...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

Here’s my theory on the ‘enigma’ of Elgar’s Enigma Variations.

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Having just gotten home from my final concert of this year’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra season, where Enigma was on the program, I offer thes...
Saturday, May 03, 2008

Haiku homage to Hume

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Fleeting sensations Momentary thought patterns Consciousness wisps. Like smoke, nothing is Apprehendable; like fog, Insubstanteous. The wis...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Ayala to IDers – ‘God is the greatest abortionist’

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Francisco Ayala, one of the world’s greatest evolutionary biologists, AND one of the most renowned biological scientists openly defending ...
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