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, June 25, 2009

Celebrity deaths, nostalgia, fallacious reasoning

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The old folk saying about “it happens in threes” often gets applied to celebrity deaths. Well, today it’s true. After Ed McMahon’s death ear...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

World’s earliest known flute found

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Beyond the age a 35,000-year-old treasure , this find in Germany raises other questions of music and human development. For example, I’ve al...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Neither Islam NOR Xianity NOR Judaism is ‘religion of peace’

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Andrew Sullivan, whose internal and geo-politics must be called neo-Sulllivan, got that one wrong in his Iran live-blogging round-up . Point...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Single gene-depression link refuted

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The original 2003 study claiming a single gene had a lot of responsibility for depression has been iffy for some time, now, but further rese...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Very inspiring classical music news

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In very inspiring news from the classical music world, a blind pianist has, for the first time ever, a blind pianist has won the Van Clibur...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Yet another Pop Ev Psych ‘truism’ crumbles

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Turns out girls maybe are just as good as boys at math . I’ll be waiting for a couple of the usual suspects to post comments here.
Monday, June 01, 2009

OAKENTREE ALPENGLOW

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Near sunset, during a walk, The summer-ripened oak trees stood tall and proud, And golden at top, like mountains Bathed in end-of-day alpeng...
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