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, April 18, 2018

A better bio of Luther than Metaxas

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It's actually Michael Massing's new parallel biography of Luther and Erasmus. Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for th...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Saplosky's 'Behave' doesn't fully do so

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky My rating: 3 of 5 stars A 3.5 star "magnum opus" need...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

The biggest lies ...

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Are the ones we tell ourselves. And, with the occasional Hitlerian sub-humanizing lies, these are lies that primarily affect ourselves, an...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

Moral realism, moral non-realism, moral naturalism

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In this post at Footnotes to Plato, Massimo Pigliucci talks about morals and not participating in the "Big Four" of Apple, Goog...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Tolkien no longer interests me

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I first really noticed that a few weeks ago, when prowling the stacks at a nearby university library. Sorry, Kindle, it's not the same...
Monday, December 04, 2017

Ross Douthat and Tyler Cowen have mutual intellectual lightweight religious talk

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Reading Ross Douthat and Tyler Cowen have a back and forth on religious belief that is laughable . Among Cowen’s biggest hoots is deplo...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Who wrote the book of Revelation?

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Fundamentalists and conservative evangelicals in the pews — and still many in pulpits and even a fair bit in academia — stand by the idea t...
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