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) 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.

•  No Logo [r]: 2000 book by Naomi Klein arguing that an economy based on branding is unfair, destroys jobs and the public sphere. ^[e]
•  Mouse (computing) [r]: Device used for pointing to objects on computer screens. ^[e]
•  Eric S. Raymond [r]: (1957—) Developer of and evangelist for open source software. ^[e]
•  Silicon Valley [r]: Part of the San Francisco, California Bay Area in California that is home to a large number of technology companies. ^[e]
• British National Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Darwin Awards [r]: Humorous award given to those who "do a Service to Humanity by removing themselves from the Gene pool". ^[e]
•  Discovery Institute [r]: Conservative think-tank based in Seattle; best-known for promoting intelligent design creationism. ^[e]
•  Afrocentrism [r]: Intellectual movement and attitude that emphasizes the role of African people in the world's history, ideas and culture. ^[e]
•  Circumcision [r]: In male humans, removal, by cutting, of the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis; may be for cultural, medical, or religious reasons, or as a rite of passage ^[e]
•  Jesus mythicism [r]: Skeptical position on the question of the historicity of Jesus Christ, denying historicity and claiming that Jesus was a myth or legend. ^[e]
• AIDS denialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Final Fantasy VIII [r]: 1999 Square-Enix role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation and PC. ^[e]
•  Stockholm [r]: Capital of Sweden. ^[e]
•  Polytheism [r]: Belief in many gods. ^[e]
•  Rape [r]: Non-consensual, forced sexual intercourse. ^[e]
•  David Lewis [r]: (1941–2001) American philosopher best known for his advocacy of modal realism. ^[e]
•  Jesus Seminar [r]: Group of scholars who critically study the life and sayings of Jesus; founded in 1985 by Robert W. Funk. ^[e]
•  Focus on the Family [r]: Christian Right non-profit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado ^[e]

To-Do List

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]: 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]: 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

• Newbie recent changes
• Uncategorized articles
• Wanted Pages
• Eduzendium articles in need of assessment
• 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]: 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
• 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]: Add brief definition or description
• Cherie Booth [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Google/Related Articles
• 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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