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
Friday, April 29, 2011

Chimayó: The Lourdes of New Mexico
works no more than the original

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On a recent vacation, I happened to stop at and visit, for the first time, the world-famous El Santuario de Chimayó  in New Mexico. For th...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Just how irrational are we? Very?

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Very, or potentially very irrational, defining "irrational" and "rational" in terms of the great project of Descartes an...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Getting Gospel sychronization wrong - Templeton-worthy?

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Or, why an academic expert in engineering should NOT stick his head into New Testament studies. Colin Humphreys, a professor of materials...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Linguistics smacks down Pop Evolutionary Psychology

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I saw this while on vacation, and hadn't had a chance to blog about it. Shades of Sapir-Whorf! It appears that language usage, in th...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Michael Ruse, Dawkins fail to understand philosophical necessity

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It's ironic to say that about a famed Ph.d. philosopher, and an atheist and skeptic of sorts to boot, as well as about a famous evolutio...
Friday, March 25, 2011

How and why I became an atheist, part 3

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OK, I'm now at the point of talking about my time in graduate seminary (divinity school) at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., the pr...

Why do secularists make "just war" arguments?

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For example, take Massimo Pigliucci's argument for bombing Libya . It's a "just war" argument. I raise this for several ...
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