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, April 30, 2020

An "authentic" Luther but a very patchy one

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In a previous blog post, I did an extended version of my Goodreads review of Lyndal Roper's Luther bio while saying I was looking for s...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Of tragedy and Hume

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I didn't realize that David Hume wrote a treatise "On Tragedy." (As in, the tragedy of great plays and literature, and some ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

The snoozefest and more at WRR

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WRR, Dallas' classical radio station, has continued to go further and further downhill over the years. That's not just my opinio...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

The outrageous half-truths of Jacobin on Sartre

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Jacobin, whose eclectic, editorially-unfocused (NOT a complement, editorial management) stable of contributors runs from Bernie Sanders DSAe...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Coronavirus, ethics and 'reopening America':
Philosophy is indeed a real-world discipline

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The New York Times Magazine recently remotely convened five people to talk about the ethics of when and how to "reopen America" f...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

Orthodoxy "versus" orthopraxis

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In a post two weeks ago , I noted that the idea of Christianity being all about orthodoxy and Judaism being all about orthopraxis — right do...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

A Lutheran college myth bites the dust

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As many R&B fans know, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performer Bill Withers died recently. His first hit was " Lean on Me ." ...
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