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
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

A new Mahler 2 for the listening list

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Bruno Walter's 1958 version is now on YouTube. I'm pretty sure it's pretty recent. Oh, and this is the whole schmeer as one vide...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

What is it like to be a chicken ... owned by Tyson?

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The header before the ellipsis points, for those not getting it, is riffing on Nagel's famous essay " What is it Like to Be a Bat? ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The failures of MBTI/Jungian personality tests

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Yeah, my sister, as a social worker, and other reasons, loves them. So do other people. Like a lot of bosses. Like, I thought, my boss...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Riffing on Robert Frost

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I took the road less traveled And later, in that New England chill I met Robert Frost. We talked, and conversed About fences, a...
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...
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