Tom Morris



2007.02.26

Ceefax.tv lets you search Ceefax. Retro! This is what people in Britain used before the Internet. 2007-02-26T18:49:23ZUntitled entry permalink

Boo fucking hoo! How many of the people who you see who put "Dr." and "Ph. D" in their advertising materials are either? 2007-02-26T12:55:41ZUntitled entry permalink

Ophelia Benson: "Some cultures and some faiths don't want women to have high aspirations at all; as a matter of fact there is nothing, literally nothing, that some cultures and traditions hate more than women with high aspirations. Some adherents of cultures and traditions like that shoot women with high aspirations in the head, precisely for the crime of having high aspirations. Other such adherents set fire to such women. So you can't do both. You can't do both, you can't do both. Sad, isn't it - but you can't. You have to choose. You can do only one. Either recognize putative cultural and faith needs, or encourage high aspirations. Those two goals are violently, tragically incompatible. Hideously incompatible. Repellently incompatible. You have to choose one, and you have to choose the right one." 2007-02-26T12:54:47ZUntitled entry permalink

 

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom
AIM: tommorris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in.

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