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
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Supersessionism and Constitutional originalism

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Editorial note: I originally wrote this piece at my primary blog, long ago. I thought I had crossposted it here, as it has a number of both ...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Praying to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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This, like the ritual of the Mass itself, the alleged moment of transubstantiation, is another of those Catholic rituals I simply can...
Friday, October 04, 2019

More on Wittgenstein, the overrated Platonist

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Via Massimo Pigliucci, I saw a new piece from a British magazine — it appears to be some sort of magazine of "ideas," but not p...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

More problems for reincarnationists

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Stimulated by reading a book Michael Shermer wrote last year, I've identified two more explanatory problems for the people who tout rein...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Benjamin Libet dethroned; what replaces him?

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I had never before known what the backstory was of the Libet experiments, what inspired Benjamin Libet. And now I do. It would se...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Conspiracy theories: the new Gnosticism

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The psychology of conspiracy thinkers appears complex. On the surface, it might seem simple. More and more social psychology research...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Science and greed, Morozov and Horgan,
Brockman and Edge and ethical cold takes

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The Edge Foundation is well known to science and philosophy fanbois and fangrrlz, including myself, with its big "annual question...
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