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Just got my MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London (also got a BA in philosophy, religion and ethics from the same college). In my spare time, I'm involved with developing software (mostly in Ruby and now Scala - see Scala for Hackers) to help make the Semantic Web a reality. My personal site is tommorris.org.
If you enjoy my contributions to Citizendium (or any other site), please feel free to leave me a tip.
Policy and Admin Stuff
- 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
- Regarding CZ:Charter drafting, I am reviewing it at User:Tom Morris/Charter Draft
- User:Tom Morris/Getting to 100,000
Current Page List
See User:Tom Morris/Archive Page List for stuff I've worked on in the past.
- Redmine [r]: Open source issue tracking and project management application built on Ruby on Rails. [e]
- Sense About Science [r]: UK charity that aims "to promote evidence and scientific reasoning in public discussion". [e]
- DBpedia [r]: Semantic Web project that has parsed and made available the contents of Wikipedia as RDF over HTTP and SPARQL. [e]
- Russell's teapot [r]: Analogy coined by Bertrand Russell to argue that the burden of proof in the debate over theism and atheism must lie with theists. [e]
- Forer effect [r]: Tendency that people have to find general statements about themselves to be very accurate discovered by Bertram R. Forer. [e]
- A Theory of Justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Minarchism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harry Browne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Educating Rita (movie) [r]: 1983 Lewis Gilbert-directed film of the Willy Russell play, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters. [e]
- Michael Caine [r]: A knighted British film actor. [e]
- Valve Software [r]: Video game developer responsible for games including Half-Life and Portal. [e]
- Examined Life [r]: 2008 documentary by Astra Taylor which consists of a number of interviews with philosophers including Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Avital Ronell, Martha Nussbaum and Slavoj Žižek. [e]
- Animal Liberation [r]: 1975 book by Australian-born philosopher Peter Singer advocating greater consideration of the rights of non-human animals under a utilitarian theory of considering the pain suffered by all living creatures; considered by many to be the foundational book of the animal liberation movement. Singer does not advocate for "animal rights" as rights are not primary in Singer's ethical theory. [e]
- Monarchism [r]: A state ruled by a monarchy – an unelected, sovereign individual Head of State - or support for such a state. [e]
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty [r]: Designation given to protect and conserve areas of natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. [e]
- Southeastern Trains [r]: United Kingdom railway franchise operating train services from across East Sussex and Kent to central and suburban London, United Kingdom. Southeastern was originally the government-run replacement for Connex South Eastern services after Connex lost the franchise. Before privatisation, the region served by Southeastern was known as 'Network SouthEast'. [e]
- American Idol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pope Benedict XVI [r]: Former Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (2005-2013), formerly an academic theologian and Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, now known as Pope emeritus (born 1925). [e]
- Karen Armstrong [r]: (1944—) English non-fiction author of numerous books about religion. [e]
- Inns of Court [r]: Organizations to which barristers in the United Kingdom belong. [e]
- Video game controversy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Positive and negative liberty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epistemic injustice [r]: Principle that when one is not believed for prejudicial reasons one is wronged epistemically. Primarily advanced by British philosopher Miranda Fricker. [e]
- Pascal's Wager [r]: Argument by Blaise Pascal that one ought to believe in God for prudential reasons. [e]
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 Minarchism, the Robert Nozick quote from ASU needs page numbering.
Philosophy
- Ontology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Existence of God [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific realism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Beauty [r]: Add brief definition or description- Euthyphro [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social contract [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alisdair MacIntyre [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bernard Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Jules Ayer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Susan Haack [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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
- David Cameron/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]: Add brief definition or description
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forer effect [r]: Tendency that people have to find general statements about themselves to be very accurate discovered by Bertram R. Forer. [e]
- 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
- Wife Swap [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Smalltalk [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]: Organizations to which barristers in the United Kingdom belong. [e]
- 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
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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