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.

• 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]: 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]: Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame, works in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. ^[e]
• 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]: (1917—2003) American philosopher of language and mind. ^[e]
• 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]: British-born philosopher with an interest in moral theory, specifically moral particularism. Lecturer at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. ^[e]
• Susan Haack [r]: (b. 1945) British philosopher working in epistemology, logic and philosophy of science working at the University of Miami. ^[e]
• 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]: General or abstract objects such as concepts, qualities, relations, and numbers, as opposed to particular objects. ^[e]
• 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
• 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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