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, April 27, 2023

Stupidity I can't respond to as comment-banned at r/Academic Biblical

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Yeah, since I've been cut off from commenting , but not banned from the group (yet) I can look at stupidity but can't comment. So, o...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Classical music woes in San Antonio

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Actually, per a very good piece by the Texas Observer, and previously unknown to me, it's ultimately "woe" in the singular — ...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Only Sky gets more shit wrong

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I wrote, 14 months ago , about how the Atheist Patheos site had gotten a lot of shit wrong in its first month. I debated about going back th...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Top blogging, first quarter of 2023 — Tacitus, Reddit, more

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Let this slip by a bit, but only by a couple of weeks. Here's a roundup of my top-10 blog post, by readership, in the last three months....
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Handwaving about the Nones?

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 Tis true that Christianity, in both fundagelical and more liberal versions within Protestantism (and parallels within Catholicism) in the U...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Another pseudoskeptical fail by Michael Shermer

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Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer My rating: 1 of 5 stars This is an expanded version of the Goodread...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Where's the basil, Bon Appetit?

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This is not an April Fool's joke. Basil is missing from Bon Appetit's list of 20 essential spices. It doesn't even hit the hono...
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