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, December 26, 2019

Stephen T. Asma fellates religion

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In a post of several years ago, I saluted Asma for saying universal disinterested love was impossible. He was focused on secular philosophe...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Antichrist vs the man of lawlessness vs
the beast and the mark of 666 or whatever

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Christian fundamentalists (that includes you standoffish, smug conservative Lutherans), non-fundamentalist conservative evangelicals (and ...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

No, the KGB didn't kill Camus

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That's despite a new book, based on old journal gleanings from Czech poet and translator Jan Zábrana, claiming exactly that . Giovanni...
Friday, December 06, 2019

The real Luther — in bits and pieces

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I came to this book on a circuitous route. I had first read Eric Metaxas’ wholly wrong, politically driven bio of Luther, which tried to m...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Walter Kaufman vs John Rawls:
Without guilt and justice in Texas courtrooms

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The title's second half, first part, should be in quotes, as I am referring to Walter Kaufman's "Without Guilt and Justice....
Monday, November 25, 2019

Goodbye to Godless in Dixie

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A couple of years ago, after getting into it with Tim O'Neill, I deblogrolled his History for Atheists. Beyond his insistence that I HAD...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

No, your free will isn't zombified by digital advertisers

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That's the ultimate philosophical takeaway from  this long piece  about the lack of effectiveness of online advertising. It's snar...
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