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
Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Nones have slipped, too!

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I had heard about the big PRRI survey of religious attitudes and issues this summer, but it happened right before I went on vacation, and I ...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

The Nones are NOT Dan Dennett's "Brights" nor are they most likely to come from Whites

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Gnu Atheist types like to sell the idea that the religiously unaffiliated in the US, the so-called Nones, are primarily atheist. And, decade...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

An alleged Beethoven's 10th? Really? Boo or yay?

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The Conversation reports that a team of musicologists, in conjunction with a team of artificial intelligence researchers, recently complete...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

IF fundagelical Christianity is dying, why?

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 In a piece a couple of days ago, looking at comments by resigned Southern Baptist Convention ethicist Russell Moore, I said that if fundage...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Is fundagelical Christianity dying?

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 "Fundagelical" is an ever-more-common mashup for "fundamentalist" and "(conservative) evangelical," for the u...
Saturday, October 09, 2021

Harvey Whitehouse: Right on defining what religion is, until he went way wrong

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Via Pocket, I saw this Nautilus piece , written by Steve Paulson, that at first looked very interesting. British anthropologist Whitehouse, ...
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Thursday, October 07, 2021

Unmaking the myth of the "white Christian worldview"

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 Robert P. Jones, an ex-fundagelical of some sort, talks at Time about escaping the "white Christian worldview." But, as two Twee...
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