Tom Morris: 2007-12-14

2007.12.14

The BBC is reporting that the government is concerned about gender stereotyping on vocational training courses - ie. not enough men are on hairdressing courses. Well, not enough women are in IT. Good to know, then, that the graduating class in philosophy that I sat with in brown robes on Monday had an 8:6 female:male ratio. I was trying to find PZ Myers' blog post about the gender ratio in his graduate level biology classes but ended up finding a post about gender ratio in butterflies instead. I shall leave the psychoanalysis of this piece of serendipitous/incompetent Googling to your imagination. 2007-12-14T15:45:22Z

Scoble has video up of Nova Spivack talking about Twine. I hate to say it, but I think Twine isn't tremendously interesting. And I don't think that the Semantic Web is going to emerge from venture-backed California startups but really by accident. The unique selling point of Twine doesn't seem to be there. I can't understand why I would want to use it. Just being honest. 2007-12-13T23:18:34Z

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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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