Tom Morris: 2007-12-21

2007.12.21

PZ has the story on a 40-year-old Afghan man who has just married an eleven-year-old girl. Ah, but it's just another culture and we should respect that. 2007-12-21T17:27:26Z

Luciano Floridi has an excellent article about the ethics of RMT in MMORPGs. There are some interesting ethical issues here, but I don't think that Floridi gets into them. This is to do with the fact that many online games have a controlled economy and that economy can be dictated by the manufacturers - the game manufacturers can change how the economy runs. Does this mean that players should exploit it without any moral mercy, or should they act in the same way as they do in the real world? 2007-12-21T17:15:36Z

The Guardian has a piece up about the McGinn-Honderich review dispute (see 2007.12.15; via Brian Leiter). 2007-12-21T17:00:44Z

SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX 2007-12-21T18:16:52Z

We're all quite liberal here, so you won't mind me linking to the top ten sexy geeks of 2007. Woooweeeeh! Oh baby, I love the way you carry that PickAxe!

My chosen profession can't compete on that front, alas. The mixture of schoolmarmish women and excessively beardy men. It's just... yeah. Don't go there.

To give you both sides of the story, we need to talk about !sex - or sex == false or whatever. There's some good news on the anti-anti-sex thing. More and more states are rejecting federal abstinence-only funding.

Headline was mandatory. Sorry.

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

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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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