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, July 25, 2024

Top blogging, second quarter of 2024

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 I'm not sure if I did a first quarter roundup or not. Anyway, here goes. Not all of these were posted in the past three months, but all...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

"A quarter of a quarter of a quarter" — the real number of "bona fide" Catholics

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An interesting story in Texas Monthly about state attorney general Ken Paxton vs El Paso's Annunciation House as a migrants' refu...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Laughableness about putting Marcion as the First Gospeller

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 I may not quite be done with responding to stupidity at r/AcademicBiblical, as the Marcion fellation continues there. A post there last mon...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

No, Tacitus didn't write about Nero persecuting Christians

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When I got in discussion with Nero biographer John Drinkwater about Nero, I eventually wrote a follow-up piece , suggesting that odds were ...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

A Cerberus of Templeton-prize type ideas

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This is a moderately expanded Goodreads review, that may get expanded more economically and posted on my main blog as well. The nature of th...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Did Peter and Paul get offed internally, by internecine Christian disputes? Almost certainly not, and let's deconstruct the bad reasoning

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A VERY interesting comment on r/AcademicBiblical, that, if one strips away legendary interpretations of 1 Clement, Peter and Paul may inde...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Oldest manuscript of Jesus' alleged infancy found

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 Of course, the word "alleged" is nowhere in the CBS News story about the discovery of the oldest manuscript fragment of The Infa...
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