Tom Morris: 2007-09-03

2007.09.03

Susan Jacoby on Mother Teresa: "In a reverential and sanctimonious cover story in last week's issue of Time magazine, psychonanalysts and priests are quoted. Guess what? Both the shrinks and the reverends think that Teresa is even holier because of her overwhelming doubts... The agreement of priests and psychoanalysts is not, after all, very surprising. Both Freudian psychoanalysis and Roman Catholicisms are faiths whose central tenets have nothing to do with evidence." The complexity of the human mind has become a great device for theological sophistry, and the discussion over Teresa is a perfect example of such rhapsodic bullshit. 2007-09-03T22:20:02Z

I've added another idea to the GetSemantic wiki caled Transport Service Mapping. Just chucking some ideas around. 2007-09-03T22:16:15Z

Transcript of Polly Toynbee on Radio 4 talking about her new position as president of the BHA. 2007-09-03T22:08:33Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom

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I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

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. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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