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
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Link list update

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 Been a long time since I've done a cleanup on that. Some, like John Horgan's old Cross-Check, Massimo's previous blogging incar...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Skeptophilia — a closet semi-believer?

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 Over at my main blog, I have Skeptophilia, a blog by Gordon Bonnet, on my blogroll. It's generally good stuff, but at times, more than ...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

The Origins of Judaism, Part 1: Ritual purity and foods

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The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal by Yonatan Adler My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Origins of Judaism Simply a...
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Another Pauline self-contradiction: Food sacrified to idols

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I Corinthians 8 is well-known to critical scholars for largely torpedoing Luke's claim in Acts 15 of some grand "Council of Jerus...
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Thursday, February 09, 2023

Has American culture really moved past philistinism in the arts?

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 That's the subthesis of "Picasso's War," reviewed below. Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Biblical scholarship subreddits are not the answer

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 A Naugrith the Nazi, or other moderators, at r/AcademicBiblical or r/AskBibleScholars, can go fishing for comments that aren't academic...
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...
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