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
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Top blogging, third quarter of 2024

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 It's a bit late, but, here goes. We're going to start with the top two, then drumroll from 10-3, for a specific reason. No. 1 is fr...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Nature's God: Apparent Gnu Atheist's bad history

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Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book caught my interest ...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Yet more biblical criticism problems at the subreddits

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A briefer one than normal here, but just a few thoughts on the latest nuttery at the biblical criticism subreddits. It is interesting that C...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Critiquing the book review

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This piece by Ben Yagoda is seven years old but still worth a read. Yagoda asks why, in many cases, reviewers, that is, critics, and the gen...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

The brain is still not massively modular for language

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 And thus, Noam Chomsky is still wrong. But, that's about all you'll learn from Steven Mithen's new book. Actually, if you, like...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Problems at the biblical criticism subreddits again — OT festivals, Bart Ehrman, Luke-Acts

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At the two where I'm banned. At Ask Biblical Scholars, someone asking " How can you debunk Unitarianism? " Violates sub rules ...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

A few updates

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Mainly blogroll, links list, etc. On the blogroll, I got rid of Gary the ex-Lutheran. Had enough of him. It wasn't quite Gnu Atheism, bu...
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