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
Friday, June 28, 2019

Is the prosperity gospel all that?

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In her book "Blessed," Kate Bowler provides a good ... but not fantasic, overview of the history of the success gospel, prosperity...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

D.S. Wilson tries to extend group selection to cultural evolution

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This looks to be a howler. Wilson , who along with non-relative E.O. Wilson, tried to turd-polish group selection in evolutionary biolo...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

What is "agency"? What is Aristotle's influence on defining it?

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These are both issues relevant to Jessica Riskin's 2016 book " The Restless Clock ," first brought to my attention by Barbara ...
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Friday, June 07, 2019

Christopher List, the new hottie on free will,
leads me to double down on "mu"

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Christopher List has a new book out defending free will from determinists. Two online friends of mine, John Horgan and Massimo Pigliucci, ...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

An ex-Lutheran still can't stomach a Mass
as either a Lutheran by heritage or a secularist

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I recently attended a Catholic high school graduation. It wasn’t out of personal choice, but rather I was on the newspaper clock. One of the...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Was Thomas Kuhn all he cracked himself up to be?

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Maybe, and maybe not. I do like that Kuhn's paradigms and paradigm shifts note that science has always had its deductive as well as ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

More thoughts on no "Levite Exodus" and Egyptian origins for Judaism

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This is a continuation of thoughts from my first post about Richard Elliott Friedman's ideas about a "Levite Exodus" from Egy...
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