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, December 26, 2024

WRR's old holidays tradition made worse

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 Even before being essentially acquired by Dallas' NPR station, KERA, WRR had a long tradition of playing classical Christmas music — an...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Did the typewriter influence Nietzsche's philosophy?

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Interesting thoughts here . Robert Hassan is not a philosophy professor, but one of communications, it should be noted. Nonetheless, he appe...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

The "patron saint of the internet" — including the Sacred Heart of Acutis!

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No, really, in a "you can't make this shit up." Francis the Talking Pope has decided there should be a patron saint of the In...
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Thursday, December 05, 2024

Re-reading and rethinking Aron Ralston

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 Per my Goodreads review, which I am expanding even more than I normally do on some of these blogged reviews, I read "Between a Rock an...
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...
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