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, January 26, 2023

Are we hardwired for happy vs sad music? I doubt it

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Blogger Tales of Whoa says this : A paper in Psychological Studies showed that newborns, when played music judged by listeners as "hap...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

Michael Langlois: The man who led to Jeff Kloha's current job

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 Old Concordia Seminary classmate Kloha, as I blogged nearly 3 years ago , with a follow-up to that, due to new details, a few months later ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Bookwyrm: The not-quite-new kid on the book reading block

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 Last year I joined Storygraph. I had been considering it even before Amazon gave me the Mafia horse's head in bed treatment and I event...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

The "new" WRR? OK so far, no more

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If you missed it, I blogged last year about the Dallas/Denton NPR station taking over management of WRR, the classical radio station for th...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

A new sheriff at r/AcademicBiblical: badge enamored, or on the spectrum?

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 First, "badge enamored" is more suave than "mini-Nazi." And, perhaps, somewhat nicer. Second, "on the spectrum...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

My year in books 2022

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 Thanks to a library card at the nearest large library, I smashed my Goodreads reading challenge with room to spare. Take a look at what wa...
Saturday, January 07, 2023

Top blogging of 2022

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An annual roundup of the most read blog posts of the past year. Not all were new to the past three months. No. 1, " Libertarian pseudos...
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