User:Tom Morris

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.

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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
• 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
• Notes

Current Page List

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

•  National Secular Society [r]: British secularist political pressure group founded in 1866 by Charles Bradlaugh. ^[e]
• Heathrow Airport [r]: (IATA code: LHR) Busiest airport in the United Kingdom, located 14 miles west from central London. Formerly a military airfield, it is currently operated by BAA Limited, the privatised British Airports Authority. ^[e]
• Timothy Geithner [r]: (1961–) United States Secretary of the Treasury, previously president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ^[e]
•  Rick Warren [r]: (1954–) American evangelical megachurch leader; gave invocation at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. ^[e]
•  Elizabeth Alexander [r]: American poet, essayist and playwright; delivered poem "Praise Song for the Day" during inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama. ^[e]
• Society of Christian Philosophers [r]: Association of Christian philosophers founded in 1978 and primarily based in the United States of America. Membership is open to anyone interested in philosophy who considers themselves a Christian; no denominational affiliation or particular school of philosophical interest is required. Hold conferences frequently across North America. ^[e]
•  William Alston [r]: (1921–2009) American philosopher and Syracuse professor, influential in Christian philosophy. ^[e]
•  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]: Libertarian concept of a state that is at the smallest possible size: able to enforce contracts and protection but unable to provide welfare and other services. (Compare with anarchism, anarcho-capitalism) ^[e]
• American philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Harry Browne [r]: Libertarian Party (U.S.) presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, investment adviser and author of a number of books on libertarian advocacy: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, Why Government Doesn't Work. ^[e]
•  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. 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]: American musical talent search television show. ^[e]
•  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]: Add brief definition or description
•  Pascal's Wager [r]: Add brief definition or description

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

• 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]: 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
• 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
• Secular Coalition for America/Related Articles

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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