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, March 24, 2010

Science vs. scientism

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This excellent post is why I read Bob Carroll more than P.Z. Myers. To my skeptical friends — if you're not following the Skeptic's...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

New indications of what drives consciousness

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A theory known as " global workspace " seems to be getting some tentative empirical confirmation, including that "the researc...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Talk deeply, be happy

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Hey, fellow history, philosophy or political science geeks! Don't be afraid to talk about what you love; it's probably making you ha...
Friday, March 05, 2010

The creation of hell and the problem of evil

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If, as many Christians claim, hell was created for Satan et al, and not human beings, this still does nothing to alleviate the problem of ev...

The "age of accountability" and ensoulment

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Baptists and similar strains in Protestant Christianity talk about an "age of accountability," with the implication that "not...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Pop Ev Psych goes off the rails on depression

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The idea that clinical depression was evolutionarily selected for is why many real evolutionary biologists laugh at something like this as a...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Cultural neuroscience - a new frontier

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When the addition is still in basic arithmetic, Chinese speakers use a different part of their brain than do Westerners. Things like this ar...
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