Tom Morris: 2007-12-27

2007.12.27

Ed Brayton has an excellent post up on his unfortunate reluctance in supporting Ron Paul's campaign. I agree (theoretically, of course, I'm a British citizen and therefore have only an academic interest in US politics). You know how Ron Paul could win? Forget all the conspiracy shit and all the "OMG, the Jews are using con-trails and Bilderburg's puppet governments to cover up the truth about WTC and Roswell!" people who listen to Alex Jones. Those people are unhinged cranks, and not a good basis on which to build a political campaign. 2007-12-27T15:23:32Z

Juan Cole has a list of the top ten myths about Iraq in 2007. I'd also recommend Professor Cole's recent appearance on Radio Open Source discussing how Napoleon's war in Egypt mirrors what is currently going on in Iraq under US occupation. 2007-12-27T14:32:14Z

Valentin Zacharias has been experimenting with Yahoo! Pipes and SPARQL, with a web service to make easy calls to SPARQL Protocol endpoints using JSON. Neat. 2007-12-27T09:01:36Z

Human Rights Watch have a public letter to U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, asking the Bush administration to strengthen it's policy on China's human rights record specifically with regard to the Beijing Olympics. I think that history will not look kindly on U.S. and European tolerance of the human rights abuses that are taking place in China. 2007-12-27T07:32:09Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

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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