Tom Morris: 2008-07-12

2008.07.12

Tyler Cowen is fundamentally wrong about throwing out books. There is no objective scale of the meritoriousness of books. Different readers have different needs for books. I have a few creationist books on my shelves, not because I'm a creationist or think that creationism is valid, but because I like to know my enemies. Therefore, if you were to take Cowen's suggestion (inspired no doubt by the fact that he is writing for a book publisher), you would think "Oh, that Tom character has got too much to read already, so I won't give him this book about creationism". You'd be mistaken. I would like to have the book, for reference. Book readers are odd people, and about the least likely to strictly follow the model of homo economicus. 2008-07-12T11:10:54Z

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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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