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
Saturday, March 31, 2012

The value of agnosticism

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Reading elsewhere here (from a "skeptic") that "agnosticism has no intellectual merit"? Tosh. Certainly if we're...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Why Gnu Atheism is tempting at times

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I just got this mass blast email at work: Recognizing child abuse and neglect as an epidemic that killed 1,560 children in 2010 and affect...

Hoffmann gets closer on #GnuAtheist critique

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R. Joseph Hoffmann has been among the better academic writers to critique excesses of Gnu Atheism. The problem is, he has sometimes gone t...

Gary Gutting whiffs on 'problem of evil'

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For theists, atheists, and philosophers of religion and beyond, the "problem of evil" is at the core of stumbling blocks of weste...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Philosophy's the same by any name

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I agree in part with Colin McGinn, that many people may have bad conceptions about philosophy. But, his idea of renaming the discipline wi...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

What about God and the first tornado. ma'am?

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I'm no Gnu Atheist, and I know at bottom line people in general are creatures of emotion, and desire for psychological comfort first, t...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

He died at fifty

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HE DIED AT FIFTY That’s what a memorial said aboard the old-time train. No cause of death listed. Just that he died at fifty. ...
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