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
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

How and why I became an atheist, part 4

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In part 1 of this series, I look at my conservative Lutheran childhood, above all my conservative Lutheran minister father's influences...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Some thoughts for soul believers

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As Sean Carroll notes , it is technically true (Hume and the problem of induction strike again!) that an immaterial soul exists and is outsi...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Billy Graham is master of the obvious — and the clueless

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Actually, he's more the master of his interpretation of the obvious, when he says people are atheists because " they want to run th...
Monday, May 09, 2011

Tradition — New Mexico style

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In dusty, high-country towns Off the more-beaten path of northern New Mexico Acequias still channel water from trickling streams As they ...

Nature is tenacious

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A pinon pine on a crag above Wolf Creek Pass/My pic Tenacious grasp Pinon pine on mountain crag; Solitary life. That lone rugged tre...
Friday, May 06, 2011

Happy 300th, David Hume!

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Think philosophy is dull? Want personal insight into Hume's claim that reason is and needs be "the slave of the passions"? H...
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...
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