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, August 31, 2009

It ain’t just men who are serial monogamists

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In the latest blow, of many, to Pop Evolutionary Psychology, it turns out that some women marry multiple husbands serially . That’s in socie...
Friday, August 28, 2009

The little boxes of life

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Thinking about moving, going to a new job, but within the same career path, my post on David Brooks’ new column about America’s “advantages”...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

More doubt on Francis Collins as NIH chief

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Francis Collins, President Obama’s nomination to head the National Institutes of Health, has already drawn skepticism NOT for being religiou...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

New Skeptic’s Circle …

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Is now up , including my spoof, The Bell Curve 2.0.
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...
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