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, January 30, 2020

Stealing and selling biblical papyri, but why?

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I had heard about the alleged pre-100 CE papyri fragment of Mark (which turned out to not be true on the dating, as even an evangelical ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

The academic shortcomings of Jesus denialists

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First, folks, that's what the likes of  Robert M. Price , Joseph Atwill,  Richard Carrier  and  Acharya  (D.M. Murdock) are called here....
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Schopenhauer, Camus, detachment,
maturity and midlife crises

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A very interesting piece here , and one I largely agree with. Kieran Setiya talks about how studying ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer can aver...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Neo-geocentrism and mysticism

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John Horgan, author of Rational Mysticism, continues on his quest of putting mystical experiences in a logico-empirical framework. Recentl...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Top blogging of 2019

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 It was a very interesting year here by what readers liked. A mix of debunking, takes on things Luther, pseudoscience debunking, philoso...
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 ...
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