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, May 28, 2026

Adam Gopnik — a semi-fail on the historical Paul

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 New piece by Adam Gopnik at the New Yorker. One takeaway early on: A detailed story of Paul’s travels and mission, Acts is also generally ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

The truth about Berenice, sister of Herod Agrippa II

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 As in the Berenice mentioned with him late in Acts. Per Bruce Chilton , not only will you not find it in Acts (shock me), you also won'...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

But I DID decide what to do on my most recent vacations

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 This is a refutation of Massimo Pigliucci's most recent piece defending determinism, which I decided not to link to. I pondered it a bi...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

Revisiting the "god-fearers" of early Christianity

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An excellent piece by Thomas A. Robinson at the University of Arizona's Biblical Interpretation website, an underutilized source for bi...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Neil Godfrey calls out Richard Carrier over Bayesianism

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VERY interesting. Godfrey, surely known to some of my readers as the proprietor at Vridar, says that using Bayesian probability is a sort of...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

I forgot how fucking stupid Raphael Lataster is

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And mendacious, too. Other than thinking Richard Carrier is genius-level mythicism, he thinks the same, in this piece , of Earl Doherty. I...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Top blogging, first quarter of 2026

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As is usual, these were the most read posts of the last three months, per Google stats. Many may be older than that, and the "evergreen...
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