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, December 16, 2021

Did Paul, with his "resurrection body", believe that a physical body of Jesus still lay in a tomb?

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Tosh and tommyrot, per good British English, if one looks at what Paul actually says in I Corinthians 15 , but British philosopher Jonathan ...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Did biblical Edom exist? Implications for an "Israel"? And, what politics are involved in this?

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 For the unfamiliar, the Copenhagen school of interpretation of the Tanakh/Old Testament is indeed minimalist even within critical exegesis....
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Thursday, December 02, 2021

If the Tacitus passage on Nero, the Great Fire, and Christians is an interpolation, why?

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I addressed week before last week how John Drinkwater handles the infamous passages from Tacitus' Annals about Nero's ALLEGED cruel...
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Thursday, November 18, 2021

Drinkwater on Nero, Tacitus and early Christians: what he gets wrong

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Nero: Emperor and Court by John F. Drinkwater My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book gets an overall three-star rating, which itself is a comp...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

So, Marcion fabricated the Pauline Epistles? Yeah, right

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Since my "Sem exit" at the end of my studies for the ministry at a conservative Lutheran seminary decades ago, I've still kept...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

Top blogging of July-September

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Data is of early October. Not all posts were written in the past three months. First was my hard-hitting modern religion piece on the Luthe...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Deconstructing David Graeber's and David Wengrow's new book

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If late friend Leo Lincourt, a lover of Graeber, were still alive, he'd surely disagree with me. But, from what I first read on the Atla...
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