User:Tom Morris

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

I'm a freelance and hobbyist programmer (Ruby and Scala), have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London, help run BarCamps. I'm a vegetarian, like soul music, UNIX, am an atheist, like to think about metaphysics and epistemology, am a recovering libertarian who has turned back to being a political lefty.

My personal site is tommorris.org. I'm also on Twitter and put my code up on Github. I have a blog.

Policy and Admin Stuff

• I stood for election to both the Editorial and Management Councils in the autumn of 2010. I was elected to the Editorial Council. I have since resigned.
• I think the most important thing for Citizendium is producing more pages. I have a page called Getting to 100,000 to help us plan how to push to hit 100,000 articles.
• I run the @cz_newdrafts bot. If you are an active Twitter user and want your new drafts to be linked to your Twitter account (or want to stop doing so after having agreed to in the past), please leave a note on my user talk page. Source code. Newdrafts Consent
• I would like to organise Research Days - see User:Tom Morris/London Research Day
• I have been drafting a User:Tom Morris/Draft Style Guide
• Notes
• Draft Article Guidelines

Current Page List

See User:Tom Morris/Archive Page List for stuff I've worked on in the past.

To-Do

Tasks: Recent Changes • New Pages • Popular • Needs Defs • Basic Articles • Requested • Wanted articles • Low-intensity • Uncategorized articles • Needs Metadata • Opinions Sought

Reference finding etc.

• On National Secular Society, add criticisms of the group from Alister McGrath's book The Twilight of Atheism (in loft-library).
• On Minarchism, the Robert Nozick quote from ASU needs page numbering.

Philosophy

• Regine Olsen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ontology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Existence of God [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Scientific realism [r]: Philosophical position that posits that the entities proposed by science are real (as opposed to an epistemic abstraction). ^[e]
•  Beauty [r]: Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. ^[e]
• Euthyphro [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Social contract [r]: Agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. ^[e]
• Alisdair MacIntyre [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bernard Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Alfred Jules Ayer [r]: (1910–1989) British analytic philosopher famous for the verification principle. ^[e]
• Islamic philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Arabic philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jewish philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  African philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Rea [r]: Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame, works in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. ^[e]
• F H Bradley
• J L Austin
• Brand Blanshard [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alfred Tarski [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Donald Davidson [r]: (1917—2003) American philosopher of language and mind. ^[e]
• Saul Kripke [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Scott Soames [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language, Truth and Logic [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jonathan Dancy [r]: British-born philosopher with an interest in moral theory, specifically moral particularism. Lecturer at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. ^[e]
• Susan Haack [r]: (b. 1945) British philosopher working in epistemology, logic and philosophy of science working at the University of Miami. ^[e]
• Plotinus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jean Baudrillard [r]: Add brief definition or description

Misc

• Fix up documentation for Template:Policy-item and Template:Tasks.
• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Bibliography
• Gordon Brown/Bibliography
• Google/Related Articles
• Newbie recent changes
• Uncategorized articles
• Compile a bibliography subpage for the article on God and some other philosophical topics
• User:Tom Morris/Write-a-Thon Article Suggestions for Thought and Books
• Category:Need def
• CZ:Education Workgroup needs a list of articles
• Philosophy, Media, Computers
• User:Tom Morris/United Kingdom Article List
•  Universals [r]: General or abstract objects such as concepts, qualities, relations, and numbers, as opposed to particular objects. ^[e]
• Conspiracy theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Forer effect [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Write some regex magic to change Religion/Catalogs to a table.
• European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Kevorkian [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Usenet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• J.J.C. Smart [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Inns of Court [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cherie Booth [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Web Science Research Initiative [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Net neutrality [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rock music/Catalogs/Rock bands (and create similar catalogs for other genres)
• Buckingham Palace [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Etiquette [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Internet Archive [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Write about the Constitutional Reform Act, the decline of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and the new UK Supreme Court
• Secular Coalition for America/Related Articles
• Ajax Framework is misguided and need significant rewriting.

Public to-do list

If there's something you'd like me to do on Citizendium, please put it in a list below and sign it. I may or may not do it. You may want to also put it on Requested Articles so someone else can do it.

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