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, October 26, 2023

Sapolsky all wet on "No free will means Yes determinism"

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And, thoughts and claims like what Robert Sapolsky is apparently putting into a new book show why, scientism-peddling scientists aside, scie...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Stacking the deck in 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'

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This is an even more extended version of a Goodreads book review than normal. That’s because, in this case, while I overall ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Top blogging for the third quarter of 2023

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As with my main blog, where I do a monthly top 10, not all of these are from the last three months. I'll note there they are not. And mo...
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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Bart Ehrman goes from JW to Marcionite

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Ye gads. First? For you Bart Ehrman geeks out there? Just stop reading him and stop geeking on him. Period. He's forfeited the right to...
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Saturday, October 07, 2023

A bigger r/AcademicBiblical Nazi than Naugrith now blocked

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 That would be ... BobbyBobbie , now blocked. He, she or it, as of the new mods (before or after I was banned I'm not sure)  claims that...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 as interpolation? Yes, but mixed with some more questionable ideas from Birger Pearson

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Interesting stuff by Birger Pearson, link originally seen via r/AcademicBiblical, in one of the occasional truly good things there. First, ...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Yet more r/AcademicBiblical stupidity (briefs)

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Commenters on this post need to learn something about Stith Thompson's famous (in its academic realm, at least) Motif-Index of Folk-Lit...
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