Tom Morris: 2008-05-22

2008.05.22

Tobacco company Phillip Morris is negotiating a research contract with Virginia Commonwealth University that would not allow it to publish negative research about the company or it's products. Look forward to new reports from the university entitled things like "Why Smoking Is Good For You: An Interview With Troy McClure". Fortunately, philosophers don't often get bribed by large corporate interests, although they do sometimes become apologists for the Catholic Church and other political parties. 2008-05-22T13:21:08Z

The New York Times reports that there are fewer conflicts involving child soldiers. That's some good news in this dark world. 2008-05-22T13:13:07Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom

AIM: tommorris
YIM: tom.morris

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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