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
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

US Protestantism vs St Paul as a hotbed
of anti-government rebelliousness

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I find it "interesting" to see the number of Protestant churches, largely non-denominational, independent churches in a generall...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

RIP Penderecki

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Dammit, Krzysztof Penderecki is dead. Here's the basic story ; not using NYT's because of subscription stuff, etc. The Guardian ha...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Stereotypes: Christianity is "orthodoxy" vs Judaism is "orthopraxis"

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Two weeks ago, I blogged about my personal academic connection to the forged Dead Sea Scrolls. Baruch Spinoza: Jew or not a Jew? ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Jesus mythicist deck-stacking

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It's easy to pontificate against a Bart Ehrman's approach to establishing the likelihood of the Jesus of history actually existing b...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Radical freedom, road trip style

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I saw the RV pictured above across the highway from my apartment complex a couple of weeks ago. I'm not old by any means, but, the...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

My personal academic tie
to the Dead Sea Scrolls forgery story

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The world of biblical scholarship was hit yesterday by confirmation  that a set of 16 alleged Dead Sea Scrolls fragments at  The Museu...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Beware the Ides of March and Indo-European cognates

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March 15, 2,063 years ago in 44 BCE (there was no 0 BCE and no 0 CE, so when counting from one era to the other, you have to subtract a year...
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