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, June 24, 2021

Does objective universal morality exist?

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 Or to put it in terms of the level of individual moral statements, and in terms of an equivalent to epistemology and modern philosophical d...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Skeptatheism: Fossilized?

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What follows is a reworking of a sort of "takedown" obiturary about the death of the so-called Amazing Randi, done on my main blog...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

Language origins and theory of mind

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The Truth about Language: What It Is and Where It Came From by Michael C. Corballis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent book from the prefa...

Once more on Hume and slavery: ancient vs modern and Humean lies

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In his attempts to make light of, ignore, explain away, or whatever, race-based modern (in his time) slavery, David Hume, in The Populousnes...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

PTSD, journalism, accidents, existentialism

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OK, last month, Pocket gave me this story from The Atlantic: " We Should All be More Afraid of Driving ." Summary? Joshua Sharpe w...
Saturday, June 05, 2021

More Jesus stupidity from Xn evangelicals

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 More and more, I think of Medium as the place where bad blogging hot takes filled with clickbait stupidity go for a new life. Medium's ...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

What Searle, Turing, AI thought experiments etc get wrong, part two

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Two months ago, I talked about John Searle's famous Chinese room thought experiment, and said what Searle's critics, and to a degr...
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