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
Thursday, March 09, 2017

"What color are these strawberries?" is ultimately a philosophical question, not scientific

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A lot of people have probably, via Facebook friends or whatever, seen the photo of strawberries at left, whose production is described  he...
Friday, March 03, 2017

St Paul puffer acts like Jesus Seminar fellows he excoriates

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Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus by Donald Harman Akenson My rating: 2 of 5 stars Short on scholarship, long on coprol...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Another failed book on Jesus and his alleged Davidic dynasty family

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The Invention of Jesus: How the Church Rewrote the New Testament by Peter Cresswell My rating: 2 of 5 stars Good on textual criticism; g...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

One will be taken and the other left

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For people not familiar with the Christian scriptures, whether some atheists, or some Xns both liberal and fundamentalist or conservative ev...
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...
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