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, July 30, 2026

Panthera: Christian creation, not Jewish?

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So claims Christopher Zeichmann, in this excerpt from a new book. The basic gist is that this was a Christian anti-Jewish polemic: Early Ch...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Neil Godfrey thinks Rene Salm has refudiated Ken Dark, and tries to bankshot Carrier

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 I had added Vridar to my blogroll, with all of its problems, because of some of Godfrey's comments and observations about Carrier. But,...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

What if there were another Bethlehem?

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Yes, what if? Bruce Chilton looks at that idea near the end of a long essay on just what it meant for Jesus to be a mamzer, above all in te...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Disagreeing with Massimo, but seeing where he comes from on Stoicism

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 Near the end of a long discussion via Substack notes, about the nature of Stoicism, after I mentioned "ontological dualism," then...
Friday, July 03, 2026

Fuck around with Pope Leo XIV and find out

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 After the Society of St. Pius X, who had had bishops previously excommunicated by Pope John Paul II restored by Ratzi the Nazi, aka Benedic...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Top blogging of April-June 2026

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 This is, per Blogger stats (which may or may not include bot hits) the most-read posts of the last three months. That does not necessarily ...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

A roundup of biblical criticism stuff in re Amateur Exegete

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 Uhh, no, librul evangelical on Patheos , Paul's family didn't become Roman citizens when made freedmen of the Sergius Paulus family...
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