Tom Morris: 2008-08-19

2008.08.19

A. C. Grayling: [Richard Holloway] falls into the trap of attempting to assert an equivalence between atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens (he does not name them) and those he describes as espousers of “strong religion”, those who believe they have a direct line to God and thus know what God wants. He criticises both for the assurance with which they assert their positions. But whereas some of the latter issue and carry out death threats, neither Dawkins nor Hitchins does. They shoot down ideas, the warriors of God shoot down living human beings. 2008-08-19T14:35:07Z

I didn't know about RDF/XML Source Declaration. Looks like something I may pop in to Rena when I add non-conjunctive graphs. 2008-08-19T10:09:58Z

Frances Berriman: What gets me the most is how on Earth is it beneficial for these companies to be so bad? It's not like they get to keep everything they fail to deliver. It costs them more time, more money (petrol, man-hours etc.) and they have companies and customers calling them all the time to ask them why they're so incompetent. 2008-08-19T10:07:36Z

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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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