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, October 15, 2016

A Word to the Disabled

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A WORD TO THE DISABLED I wasn't disabled myself But I was, briefly, Semi-disabled. A blur of gray, An attempt to turn and s...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Man’s Mindset vs. God Grandeur

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A riff on, but no apologies to, Gerard Manley Hopkins MAN’S MINDSET The world is charged with the mindset of man It will flame ...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Existentialism explained, and unexplained

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I just got done reading "At the Existentialist Cafe," mentioned, if not recommended, by a friend on either Google Plus, Facebook o...
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...
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