User:Sdorrance

Sdorrance is the username for real-person [mailto:sam.dorrance@gmail.com Sam Dorrance]. To see what I have been up to lately on Wikipedia, check my contributions

Bio
I am a 22 year old college graduate who lives and works in the Northeast. Although I have a busy schedule, I am consistently more and more interested in Wikipedia and other Wiki-projects and so I am trying to get myself more familiar and more involved as a somewhat-active member of the community. I don't really like cell-phones, or phones of any kind. Peace and quiet and solitude suit me fine now that college is over.

Interests
Although I was educated at the College of Wooster, at which the philosophy department is largely dedicated to the Analytic tradition, I maintain a broad interest that transcends the analytic/continental boundary - limited only by my distaste for Plato and Ayn Rand. My Junior Thesis was a Kantian critique of development aid, and my Senior Thesis was the critical development of a Heideggerian philosophical theology. Thus, most of my contributions to Wikipedia are to be found in places where philosophy or a specific theory is at issue. In addition, I am a dedicated editor and so clear, well written articles are my end goal, regardless of the time it takes, or whether it is my writing that is poor instead of another's.

What I'm working on currently

 * Sloyd
 * Open government
 * Deontology and Deontological ethics
 * Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
 * Requested_articles/Social Sciences and Philosophy
 * see transwiki'ed Glossary of philosophical isms and make sure each wiktionary entry has link to corresponding wikipedia article...

Articles

 * Round square copula
 * Samuel Bowles (economist)
 * Ungdomshuset
 * The Kyoto School of Philosophy
 * Heideggerian terminology
 * Panopticon
 * Open government
 * Aletheia

Templates

 * WikiProject Business
 * moral
 * Philwelcome
 * WikiProject Denmark

Categories

 * Category:Jewish theology
 * Category:WikiProject Denmark

User-subpages

 * /experiment - where I experiment with template code.
 * Kyoto School Navigational Box
 * Draftspace for Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
 * Philosophy Wikiproject userboxes I've designed: page 1,...and page 2

Crap to relieve my scattered brain:

 * Wikimedia | Wikiversity | Uncyclopedia


 * Encyclopedia of Earth | LibriVox | Project Gutenberg