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
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Computer software confirms 'documentary hypothesis

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Ever since the idea was first proposed more than a century ago by Julius Wellhausen , nonfundamentalist biblical scholars (of course, fundam...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Chomsky should think again - within himself

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Sounds like this is a definite book to read: The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization . Michael Corbal...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

How and why I became an atheist, Part 6

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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...

How and why I became an atheist, Part 5

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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...

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...
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