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, December 17, 2018

Andrew Sullivan hits a new pseudointellectual low

›
In what I see as possibly his greatest feat of anti-intellectualism since denoting an entire issue of The New Republic to touting the pseu...
Monday, December 10, 2018

The embodied version of the self is real

›
Is it really true, as people such as Gnu Atheist Alex Rosenberg and a person on Twitter claim, that there is no such thing ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Attempt to normalize Marxism and Sartre's bromance fails

›
Retired Wayne State professor of the history of ideas Ronald Aronson, an expert philosophical commenter on Jean-Paul Sartre, including on hi...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

So Sharon Hill is no longer a skeptic

›
Sharon Hill of I Doubt It  has finally seen the light  and is leaving movement skepticism or Skeptics™. She mostly gets the reasons right,...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

If funerals are for the living, I shall not attend:
Thoughts, poetry, Schnittke

›
If funerals are for the living, what then when the living, or one of the living, doesn't want to do to the funeral of a dead relative? ...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Does Texas really have that many atheists?

›
Near the end of  its latest poll  on the Beto O'Rourke-Ted Cruz Senate Race in Texas, Lyceum reports on the background of respondents, a...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

Some philosophers are more equally wrong than others

›
I like Massimo Pigluicci a lot. He makes philosophical issues accessible to the general public, and he covers a variety of issues. We ag...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.