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, September 26, 2024

Here's how to butcher a book about early 20th century American classical music

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 Now, I'm not a former music critic of the New York Times, unlike Joseph Horowitz, but when I was a Dallas Symphony Orchestra season-tic...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Utah no longer Mormon majority

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 The LSD Church continues to claim it is, but religious sociology surveys, per the Religious News Service, paint a massively different pictu...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Catholic Fort Worth Diocese enshrining Padre Pio

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Rome loves to talk about how it will "follow the science" on something like evolution by natural selection (with a theistic evolut...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Aeon ignores that Walter Kaufmann crushed John Rawls

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 At Aeon, John Lefebvre has a paean to Rawls , apparently an extract from his new book "Liberalism is a Way of Life," which is men...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

'Catastrophe Ethics': In retrospect, wrong from the title

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 I have been hitting a string of cropper and semi-cropper books in touted new philosophy books recently. (Sorry, Little Bobby Sapolsky and d...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

De gustibus non disputandum on natural beauty

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A couple of weeks ago, while on vacation, I was hiking the Grove of Titans trail at Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park. I was coming back t...
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Thursday, August 15, 2024

A few more r/AcademicBiblical tidbits — Jesus burial stupidity, Paul naming, more

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 No, contra ZanillaMilla in this post , "Saul" was not a Greek signum, then Paul a Roman cognomen he later switched to, namely bec...
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