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
Friday, November 27, 2020

Coronavirus and Conservative Cafeteria Catholics

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 On my main blog, I've occasionally written about the "CCC," especially combining it in January with the second CCC of the Cov...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

The Khazar hypothesis is real

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 For the unfamiliar, the "Khazar hypothesis" is that Ashkenazic Jews are not Semitic, but are primarily descended from the Turkic ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Our brains evolved to forget, as much as to remember

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Having an infinite, or practically so, memory capacity seems fantastic, no? No, in reality. For the few people who have something like that,...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

Maybe the "dopamine" theory of addiction isn't ALL wrong; ditto on serotonin and depression

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 Sometimes, science is exciting indeed.  For years, starting about the turn of the century, dopamine as "the addiction neurotransmitte...
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...
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