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, February 25, 2021

The newest foul ball by Bart Ehrman (Update: Second newest)

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I wasn't at all a fan of his previous book, on the history of Christian origins, giving it two stars and also pointing out specific prob...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Contra Julian Baggini, on Hume, two wrongs don't make a right or justify a Platonic noble lie

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Although already refuted by my piece on David Hume as racist , and refuted on presentism ? Julian Baggini goes in the tank for Hume. Underc...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

New insights on Camus

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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars Very, very insightful work on the ...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

Diverse types of diversity are lacking

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 I had said here, at the start of the year, that I planned to do an occasional second weekly post that would likely run on Saturdays. Said p...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

Hume, racism and bigotry, and rank hypocrisy

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Per my presentism blog post and my post about James' Harris' 2015 bio of David Hume, he was a racist. But, how bad of a racist was...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Top blogging of 2020

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Rankings are as of Sunday, Jan. 3. As I normally post once a week, and never more than twice a week, as this is not my primary blog, and I...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Mossner: Hume the Human

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The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great book on Hume the human. But, because Mossner ha...
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