Tom Morris



2008.08.12

Orson Scott Card should be living proof to all the geeks in the world that being a science fiction author does not protect you from being an idiotic douchebag. Or maybe that living in North Carolina fucks with your brain. He's calling for a violent overhtrow of the United States government... because he doesn't like gay marriage. Yeah. 2008-08-12T01:01:47ZUntitled entry permalink

Mike LaBossiere: If the discipline of philosophy is defined in a way that precludes achievement, then philosophy can (by definition) never achieve anything. The same sort of method can be used to "prove" that a liberal can never accomplish anything. Just define "liberal" such that if someone achieves something, then she is not a liberal. It's a variation on the No True Scotsman and a Straw Man. Certain otherwise rational people engage in rather idiotic anti-philosophical episodes - I'm currently writing about them. 2008-08-12T00:48:31ZUntitled entry permalink

Improbulus: Wouldn't you be fed up if you attended a session in order to learn about a subject you're interested in, only to find yourself dumped into a group of equally ignorant attendees and forced to listen to people who know as little about the subject as you do, or even less, dominating the proceedings by virtue of egocentricity, pushiness and loudness rather than actual expertise in the subject matter? 2008-08-12T00:39:17ZUntitled entry permalink

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  • Psychology Today: Plight of the Little Emperors []
    In my (albeit limited) experience, the children of pushy parents don't do any better at university than anyone else - but, then again, this may have something to do with the fact that A-levels seem to suck as a way of predicting university attainment. Interesting to see that China is having similar issues.

 

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Tom Morris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. 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.

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