User:Tom Morris

I'm a (post)graduate student in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London and have a BA in philosophy and religion from the same university. In my spare time, I'm involved with developing software (mostly in Ruby) to help make the Semantic Web a reality. My personal site is tommorris.org.

I'm based near London, and am interested in organising Citizendium London meetups, possibly Research Days, where - maybe with the institutional blessing of academic or research libraries, we descend as a group, and collaboratively work on articles for a day. I'm interested in hearing from anyone who's interested in such a possibility, and academic or research libraries who would be willing to let a bunch of Citizendium authors in to read your books. More details on User:Tom Morris/London Research Day.

See User:Tom Morris/University Reading Lists for a list of university reading lists (you'll see why when you get there).

User:Tom Morris/Draft Style Guide is a style guide I'm working on.

If you enjoy my contributions to Citizendium (or any other site), please feel free to leave me a tip.

Current status

Woohoo! Finished my MA! Can get back to work on Citizendium.

Current Page List

• Bertrand Russell [r]: (1872–1970) British analytic philosopher, logician, essayist and political activist. ^[e]
• Friedrich Nietzsche [r]: (1844–1900) German philosopher and writer who developed key concepts of morality, religion and the contemporary culture of Europe. ^[e]
• Tim Berners-Lee [r]: British software developer famous for creating the World Wide Web. ^[e]
• Semantic Web [r]: Tim Berners-Lee's concept of a "web of knowledge", whereby web-based document contents would be annotated and classified so that computers can parse the classifications and provide search results based on the semantic information (what the content means), rather than simply on matching of text strings. ^[e]
• The Republic (dialogue of Plato) [r]: Socratic dialogue on the nature of justice through imagining a new city state. ^[e]
• Feminism [r]: Movement seeking the emancipation of women from discriminatory gender roles and laws. ^[e]
• Theodor Adorno [r]: (1903–1969) German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist and Frankfurt School theorist. ^[e]
• Popular culture [r]: Commercialised folk culture that exists for the masses; opposite of high culture. ^[e]
• Capital punishment [r]: The practice of punishment of a crime through state-sanctioned killing. ^[e]
• Psychology of religion [r]: Study of the psychological tendencies and predispositions associated with religious belief, activity, practice, expression and experience. ^[e]
• Hans-Georg Gadamer [r]: (1900–2002) Leading philosopher in the field of hermeneutics, the art of interpretation. ^[e]
• Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. ^[e]
• Fascism [r]: Political ideology of the far right that seeks national unity through patriotism, collectivism, subservience of the individual and opposition to liberalism. ^[e]
• Social Darwinism [r]: Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection. ^[e]
• Racism [r]: Belief in the difference, and often superiority, of one racial group over other racial groups. ^[e]
• Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. ^[e]
• Resource Description Framework [r]: W3C standard for exchange of metadata about Web resources. ^[e]
• Yochai Benkler [r]: A law professor at Harvard University who wrote The Wealth of Networks, a book on the legal economics of mass internet collaboration. ^[e]
• Church of Scientology [r]: Controversial religion based on the teachings of American author L. Ron Hubbard. ^[e]
• Social conservatism [r]: A political ideology that holds to a belief in following cultural tradition and traditional, often religious morality. ^[e]
• Anti-intellectualism [r]: Opposition to intellectualism, intellectuals and the views and methods of intellectuals. ^[e]
• Government [r]: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. ^[e]
• Supreme Court of the United States [r]: The final federal court of appeals in the U.S., consisting of nine Justices. ^[e]
• Friedrich Hayek [r]: (1899–1992) Austrian School economist and political philosopher who argued for free-market capitalism. ^[e]
• Affirmative action [r]: Policy of giving preference or favor to members of groups (such as racial minorities and women) who have suffered past discrimination or prejudice. ^[e]
• University [r]: A type of institution that provides higher or tertiary education. ^[e]
• Uniform [r]: An outfit which is prescribed or ceremonial based on one's position, employment, membership in an organization or societal status. ^[e]
• British Library [r]: National reference library and archive of the United Kingdom. ^[e]
• Harvest Festival [r]: An autumn celebration of the harvest in the United Kingdom. ^[e]
• White nationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Rawls [r]: (1921–2002) American liberal political philosopher and professor at Harvard University. ^[e]
• Mysticism [r]: Religious practice attempting to induce experiences of oneness with the divine or transcendent. ^[e]
• Margaret Thatcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Martin Heidegger [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Copyright [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oxford English Dictionary [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Genesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Kuhn [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Guardian [r]: Add brief definition or description
• New Testament [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Seung-Hui Cho [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neoconservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rush Limbaugh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Library of Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Poststructuralism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Karl Barth [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ideology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Software development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sudoku [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dewey Decimal Classification [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Scouting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Andrew Keen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Source code [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Existentialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Religion in the United States [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Celebrity culture [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reality television [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shareware [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Humanities [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Immanuel Kant [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Protocols of the Elders of Zion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• EVE Online [r]: Add brief definition or description
• London Underground [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Capitalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stephen Jay Gould [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ludwig Wittgenstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Existentialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Philosophy of Religion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Stuart Mill [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Aquinas [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Monotheism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alan Turing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ludwig Wittgenstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hermeneutics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Judith Butler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert M. Price [r]: Add brief definition or description
• BarCamp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edwards v. Aguillard [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Command line [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Territorial Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Ruse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Conservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Portable Document Format [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Web 2.0 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
• No Logo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mouse (computing) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Eric S. Raymond [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Silicon Valley [r]: Add brief definition or description
• British National Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Darwin Awards [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Discovery Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Afrocentrism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Circumcision [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jesus mythicism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• AIDS denialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Final Fantasy VIII [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stockholm [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Polytheism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rape [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Lewis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jesus Seminar [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Focus on the Family [r]: Add brief definition or description

To-Do List

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
• Tarski
• Donaldson
• Kripke
• Soames
• Language, Truth and Logic [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jonathan Dancy
• Susan Haack
• Plotinus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jean Baudrillard [r]: Add brief definition or description

Misc

• Newbie recent changes
• Uncategorized articles
• Wanted Pages
• 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
• Software [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Links from Theology/Related Articles
• Write some regex magic to change Religion/Catalogs to a table.
• Clean up Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan articles.
• European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Human Rights Act 1998 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Kevorkian [r]: Add brief definition or description
• American literature [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
• William James [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pablo Picasso [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Aldous Huxley [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 [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

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