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
Monday, March 07, 2016

Wittgenstein, linguistic games-playing, and analogies

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The later Ludwig Wittgenstein is known for his philosophy of linguistics, summed up in the “Philosophical Investigations.” A common metapho...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Jesus mythicism and better ideas

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I'm on record at this blog and my main blog as challenging the thought processes and intellectual level of the leading current crop of J...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Is the concept of god outside of science?

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David Ottlinger, a former philosophy prof on a personal sabbatical, says yes .  I say no. And, I offer a no that isn’t a scientism-base...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Transience

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Transience, and more specifically, meditation on it, can fit with several philosophies. It can be a part of developing Stoic imperturbabil...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Is the world ready for some neo-Cynicism?

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Update, March 13, 2015:  The original essay, at the link, was one of the semifinalists in 3 Quarks Daily's politics and social science...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Card’nal, Card’nal

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Indiana State Parks photo CARD’NAL, CARD’NAL Card’nal, Card’nal, trilling bright,  In the forests, reddened sight;  What wondro...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION

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The following poem, as should be clear from the title, riffs on a famous quotation from Yahweh in the Old Testament/Tanakh. It also referenc...
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