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, November 30, 2012

Existentialist or absurdist? Understanding Camus

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Albert Camus/From Wikipedia Albert Camus consistently rejected the label of “existentialist” for himself, preferring that of “absurdi...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Texas fall color on display

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A beautiful red oak in Rosebud, Texas, with my judicial and skilled, if I may say, use of Photoshop. I was worried, earlier this year, ...
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Does AI engage in behavioralism? Chomsky says yes

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Noam Chomsky, a long and persistent critic of artificial intelligence, says yes, or that it at least engages in the equi...
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‘Old souls’

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I still remember the first time I heard this phrase. I had been active in a social organization some time, and an older g...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

So, how good is #Faitheist? What’s it about?

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Chris Stedman/Via Center for Inquiry If you’re not familiar with that name, it appears to have been something largel...
Monday, November 26, 2012

A theological-philosophical mashup can’t save god

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A Jewish scholar, Yoram Hazony, tries to make the claim that the Christian Old Testament/Jewish Tanakh doesn’t support the idea of a god wh...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Is the Internet conscious?

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Now, my philosophy has no problem with imputing consciousness to non-carbon beings or creatures. (We would, of course, call anything with co...
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