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, January 30, 2025

The Buddhist deceptions of Stephen Batchelor

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Now I know why so many westerners tell such bullshit about Buddhism. Stephen Batchelor, in addition to his other lies, claims the Buddha rej...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Dan Dennett and Q/qualia, the manifest image and more

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Tim Bayne has a very good retrospective on some of Dan Dennett's thought at Aeon. Two main things jumped out at me. One is his claim th...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Top blogging of 2024

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 As usual, these are the most read pieces from last year, whether or not written in 2024. "Evergreen" ones will be noted by approx...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Language is not a game, it's a leap of faith!

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This piece makes the argument that the interactions in speech, which of course came eons before written communication, involve an act of fa...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

Top blogging, fourth quarter of 2024

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As is normally the case, these may not all have been written in late 2024, but they were the most-read pieces of mine in that quarter. At No...
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...
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