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, October 29, 2020

French pervert philosophers: Something new to me

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Via a Boston Review piece about a new biography of Simone de Beauvoir, which notes, inter alia the hypocrisy in The Second Sex behind the v...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Scientism, philosophy, and the Big Bang

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 Regular readers of this blog and my main one both know that I like to comment at times on the issue of "scientism," which is, in ...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

WRR: Unconstitutional Sunday programming?

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 A few weeks ago I blogged about WRR, Dallas' classical radio station, about to enter its centennial year. Now, many Dallas listeners kn...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

The new literary AI: Same as the old AI, overall

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 A week after The Guardian wrote a shortish piece breathlessly touting new writing AI, specifically a program called GPT-3, The Atlantic ta...
Monday, October 05, 2020

Is intelligence really about being a better bullshitter?

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Or, more politely, about learning to be a better motivated reasoner? So says Diana Fleischman in the pages of of Nautilus.  Two caveats. On...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

Arguing facts about historical atheists with Gnu Atheists on social media

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 Two weeks ago, I talked about the "fun" of arguing biblical interpretation with the Religious Right on Twitter. Now, a flip side....
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Zoroastrianism has its myths too

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Via Pocket, this piece from The Guardian illustrates. First, yes, it is likely that IF Zoroaster existed, he probably lived closer to 150...
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