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 29, 2026

The stupidities of Tim O'Neill

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 Regular readers here know I love bagging on "History for Atheists" blogger O'Neill, especially his handwaving lies about how ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Top blogging of 2025 on religion, critical thinking and more

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 Again, as with my quarterly posts, not all of these were from 2025, but they were the 10 most read in 2025. I'll note "evergreen...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

We're not teaching Plato at Texas A&M

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Plato is off the philosophy course list  for one class, at least, at Texas A&M because he somehow might say something anti-wingnut about...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Top posts, 3rd quarter of 2025

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 Similar to my main site, but on a quarterly not monthly basis, once again, here's a roundup of the most-read items of the last three mo...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

The Nones are still not reviving

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 Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta takes a look at new Pew et al data on where the Nones are at.  Beyond the reasons why, most of which are obv...
Friday, January 02, 2026

Ignoring the possible roots of Hanukkah, throwing secularists under the bus

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Shock me that the "pergressuve" Texas Observer would do this, but it gave TCU prof David Brockman the space to do exactly that. A...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

In the Pink is not "in the pink" with me with spinning Christmas legend for political reasons

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In The Pink Texas f inds the true meaning of Christmas badly misspins the story behind the Lukan nativity myth to present an interesting...
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