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.

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]: 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]: Two concepts of liberty distinguished by many philosophers and political theorists. ^[e]
• 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]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Ontology (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• 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]: 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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