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, October 21, 2012

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Secularists, please take a moment of silence for Paul Kurtz. If one could finger one person as a “founder” of modern, post-World War II...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Gratitude without god

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When I first heard of this idea, a decade or more ago, I was in a psychological place where I was learning more and more...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Glenn Gould gets Beethoven right

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Listening to Glenn Gould and realizing he is the ONLY pianist I've ever heard play Moonlight Sonata fast enough, esp...

How much would you spend on pet health?

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A New York Times column, with a couple expecting their first kid also staring at a $4Kdoggie health bill, is one of several things, both r...
Monday, August 20, 2012

GnuAtheism rebrands with same old triumphalism

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In what is the latest wink, wink, nudge, nudge kicking of non-atheists by inference since Dan Dennett invented the word "brights"...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

A failed attempt at theodicy

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Rev. Timothy Keller makes a nice try , when he says that if one uses the existence of suffering or natural evil, and its seeming unfairnes...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Gnu Atheists, hypocrisy, irony, petards and train wrecks

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All of those items in the header are coming together at the "premier" blog site for Gnu Atheists, Freethought Blogs. A blogg...
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