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
Friday, November 28, 2025

Pope Leo, immigration, sexual identification, and Protestantism

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 This is a different take on a piece last Friday at my main blog. If you're politically awake and not under a rock, you probably heard ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Did Leon Festinger commit some sort of research fraud?

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"When Prophecy Fails" is a seminal publication in launching the whole idea of cognitive dissonance . Now, there's new claims ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Bart Ehrman is retiring!

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Interestingly, it is next month, in the middle of an academic year, and not next spring. Why? Anyway, his blog site is promoting a final lec...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

My Goodreads review system

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  Since the much-self-heralded overhaul of the Yellow Satan-owned book review website a little over a year ago failed to give us partial-st...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

'Karma' 2.0 — a secular spin on Edward Arlington Robinson

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Ennui was in the air, and one lament From me, one of a few confusing flaws In divers of self-images. Because The world round me would not m...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Top posts for the third quarter of 2025

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As usual on this quarterly roundup, these top posts may not all have been FROM the previous quarter, just the most commonly read. I'll n...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Novels, nostalgia and need

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I grew up in Gallup, New Mexico, self-proclaimed "Indian Capital of the World." Years and years ago, I read many, though not all,...
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