Tom Morris: 2008-02-21

2008.02.21

Shock London news: Heathrow is shit. Stop the presses! 2008-02-21T20:21:50Z

I've got to say that I'm liking prospective American president, Barack Obama, more and more every day. Why? His speeches sure are stirring and all, but this 2006 speech proves to me that he has a brain, which is more than can be said for a lot of politicians. I particularly like this bit: But it's fair to say that if any of us leaving this church saw Abraham on a roof of a building raising his knife, we would, at the very least, call the police and expect the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac away from Abraham. I want the leader of the free world to have understood Fear and Trembling, and I think Obama is probably the closest of the candidates for the office of President to thinking with any degree of rationality about the philosophical underpinnings of values. Philosopher-kings are generally thought of as a bad thing - and compared to no kings, they are certainly a step down - but compared to idiot-kings, they are a big step up since they recognise logic while idiot-kings only recognise power. 2008-02-21T18:43:38Z

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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.

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