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, May 02, 2010

Buddhism IS a religion and IS metaphysical

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Unfortunately, it's not just Sam Harris who is wrong about that. A friend/acquaintance of mine on an e-mail discussion group claims tha...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Science smarts is no guarantee of ethics

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What else can you say about a geneticist who says that, when taking people's DNA samples, "informed consent" does NOT include ...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

No, you CAN'T multitask

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Not really. Not even if you're a woman. It looks like the human brain, using its bilateral division, assigns two tasks to different hemi...

First Amendment trumps 12-Steppers again

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When will officers of the parole, rehab and other parts of the legal system finally learn that AA is a religion, under two U.S. appellate co...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

Chomsky not so right on brain and language

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Yesterday, I blogged about how some of the latest findings in language usage are dialing back past claims about the degree of the brain'...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Questioning the brain's modularity a bit more

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In recent years, the idea that the human brain is "massively modular" have come under more scrutiny. The latest on this? Different...

I'm now an Amazon top-1,000 reviewer

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Reviewing almost no classical fiction and absolutely ZERO modern everyday novels, I am now a top1,000 reviewer. Here's what I'm read...
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